Ambivalent heritage: Between affect and ideology in a colonial cemetery

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-363

  Chadha, Ashish ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Calcutta; Death in the colony; Funerary landscape; Ideology; Postcolonial

Indexed keywords

CEMETERY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; IDEOLOGY; MONUMENT; POST-COLONIALISM;

ASIA; CALCUTTA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 33751063493     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: 14603586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183506068809     Document Type: Article

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