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  1. The lost land of Lemuria
    fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories
    Autor*in: Ramaswamy, Sumathi
    Erschienen: 2004
    Verlag:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is... mehr

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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden ci Placing loss -- Science in the service of loss -- Occult losses -- Living loss at land's end -- Flooding history : geographies of loss -- Mapping loss -- Laboring against loss

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0520240324; 0520244400; 0520931858; 1417545283; 1282357697; 159734723X; 9780520240322; 9780520244405; 9780520931855; 9781417545285; 9781282357693; 9781597347235
    Schlagworte: Lost continents; Tamil (Indic people); Tamil (Indic people); Civilization, Ancient
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 pages), maps
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index