Aadamkhor Haseena (The Man-Eating Beauty) and the anthropology of a moment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5006348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Singh (0000-0002-8877-3563, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249-279 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/006996670804200203 |
| OpenAlex | W2023220076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
In this article I trace certain related trajectories: the emergence and possible disappearance of the cinematic form of the soft-porn 'morning show'; the waxing and waning arrangements of certain spaces in the city of Delhi, in particular cinema halls in Old Delhi; and lives enmeshed in this unstable itinerant matrix of cinema and the city. In confronting these situations of permanent mobility, we are led to the conceptual issue of time. Do the hands of a clock describe units of experience? Does time privilege movement or rest? How do we understand time in terms of both materiality and subjectivity? How do cinematic affects relate to durational experience? I address these questions by setting out the anthropology of a 'moment' as a way of understanding durational experience. The moment is conceptualised in two distinct but related forms: as a chronograph (that tracks trajectories of movement and matter) and as a crystal (that follows varying states of mind). Understanding the issue of time as a philosophical problem through the writings of Gilles Deleuze, I also consider what kind of relationship exists, or might exist, between anthropology and philosophy
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Beauty · Epistemology · Expansive · Materiality (auditing · Modernity · Movement (music · Movie theater · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Subjectivity · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |