| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lost continents.
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Tamil (Indic people)
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Tamil (Indic people) -- India -- History
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Civilization, Classical.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Unexplained Phenomena.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Ancient Mysteries & Controversial Knowledge.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Civilization, Classical
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Civilization
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Civilization, Ancient
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Lost continents
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Tamil (Indic people)
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Cultuur.
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Verdwenen culturen.
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| SUBJECT |
Lemuria
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Tamil Nadu (India) -- Civilization
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| Subject |
India
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India -- Tamil Nadu
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520931855 |
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0520931858 |
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159734723X |
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9781597347235 |
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1417545283 |
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9781417545285 |
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