Department of Cultural Studies
Tezpur University
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  • Ph.D in Cultural Studies

Ph.D in Cultural Studies

Preamble:

The programme of PhD in Cultural Studies provides opportunity to carry out guided doctoral research upon a specific topic chosen by the scholar within the diverse interdisciplinary domain of Cultural Studies. The programme includes mandatory coursework of 18 credits on essential domain knowledge, methodology and ethics and select optional areas.

The PhD programme in Cultural Studies is meant for developing skills and perspectives to carry out quality research on themes relevant to one or more of the diverse areas of Cultural Studies in current times. The programme enables the scholar to develop confidence for taking up independent research in critical humanities and contribute original inputs to the academic scholarship.

Qualification Descriptors for the Scholars:

    Knowledge and Understanding:
  • In-depth understanding and updated knowledge of the domain of Cultural Studies in general and the research area in particular.
  • Adequate knowledge and understanding towards identifying research gaps to work on for creating new knowledge.

    Skills and Techniques:
  • Skills in identifying relevant theoretical resources and methodological tools to undertake independent research pertaining to society and culture, involving collection and analyses of primary and secondary data.
  • Skills in articulating findings and interpretations of research, maintaining the prescribed academic standards.

    Competence:
  • Ability to use acquired knowledge and skills towards creative academic/literary/cultural productions, informative documentation, and productive interactions in diverse population settings.
  • Demonstrate ethical adherence to values of equality and amity in contexts of cultural difference and plurality.

Scholar Attributes:

    Knowledge and Understanding:
  • Ability to demonstrate specialized knowledge and competence in the domain area of research.
  • Continuous engagement with ongoing research developments in the domain area of research and motivation towards participating in those developments through own inputs.
  • Sustained interest and inquisitiveness towards issues related to the larger domain of society and culture; ability to problematize them through relevant and appropriate questions.

    Skills and Techniques:
  • Ability to produce quality research publications either independently or in collaborative manner.
  • Critical sensibility towards lived experiences with self-awareness; reflexive consciousness of own subject-positions and worldviews.
  • Capability to utilize effectively various means of information and communication technology to access, evaluate and publish academic contents.

    Competence:
  • Ability to maintain originality, honesty and authenticity in expressed thoughts and practices; ability to avoid ethnocentric attitudes; sensitive towards issues of environment and sustainability; ability to maintain equality in terms of gender, sexuality, caste, colour and geography of people.
  • Demonstrate true motivation towards continued observation of, and engagement with, matters pertaining to society, culture and environment; ability to engage with lived experiences with openness and critical consciousness leading to self-realizations and perspectives which are continuously refined and updated.

Programme Outcomes:

  • PO1: Scholars will acquire essential concepts, key theoretical perspectives and methodological practices relevant to the interdisciplinary domain of Cultural Studies.
  • PO2: Scholars will be able to apply the learned theoretical ideas and methodological tools in conducting specifically focused research on matters related to society and culture, either independently or in collaboration with other researchers.
  • PO3: Scholars will be able to make quality academic publications, adhering to requisite publication norms and guidelines.
  • PO4: Scholars will demonstrate sustained critical interest and engagement with domain area of research, with adequate awareness to interlink the specialized research with the world at large.
  • PO5: Scholars will demonstrate ability towards continuous questioning on, and updating of, acquired knowledge and skills regarding their relevance in changing contexts and times.


Fresh admission into the programme of Ph. D. in Cultural Studies usually takes place twice in a year - one for enrolling into the Spring Semester (January - June) and the other for enrolling into the Autumn Semester (July - December). The admissions for both the sessions are advertised in leading Indian newspapers and in Tezpur University website. Kindly see the Admission link in the Academic section at T. U. homepage for details.

Pre-requisite: M.A. in any of the disciplines in Humanities or Social Sciences with a uniformly good academic career. Candidates with UGC JRF, UGC NET or NE SET will be given preference.

Candidates seeking admission into the PhD programme in Cultural Studies require to appear the University entrance examinations and/or personal interviews. Candidates with valid fellowships, such as UGC-(NET/JRF), are exempted from written entrance examinations.

Candidates willing for Full Time research mode are given preference.

Credit Distribution
Course Category No. of Courses Credits per Course Total Credits
Core Courses 2 4 8
Core Courses 1 2 2
Optional Courses 2 4 8
Total Credits = 18



Courses for PhD in Cultural Studies
(To be completed within the first one year from the date of admission)
Course Type Course Title L T P CH Cr
Core CT728: Introduction to Cultural Studies and Critical Theory 2 2 0 4 4
Core CT729: Research Methodology 2 2 0 4 4
Core RP799: Research and Publication Ethics 1 1 0 2 2
Any two courses from below
Elective CT731: Folklore and Culture 2 2 0 4 3
Elective CT732: Culture and Communication 2 2 0 4 3
Elective CT733: Subjectivity and Representation 2 2 0 4 3
Elective CT734: Ethnicity, Race and Nation 2 2 0 4 3
Elective CT735: North East Studies 2 2 0 4 3
Elective CT736: Heritage Studies 2 2 0 4 3
Elective CT737: Performance Studies 2 2 0 4 3
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, Cr = Credit


Mapping of Courses with the Programme Outcomes
Course Code and Course Title PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5
CT728: Introduction to Cultural Studies and Critical Theory ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT729: Research Methodology - - ✓ - ✓
RP799: Research and Publication Ethics - - ✓ - ✓
CT731: Folklore and Culture ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT732: Culture and Communication ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT733: Subjectivity and Representation ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT734: Ethnicity, Race and Nation ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT735: North East Studies ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT736: Heritage Studies ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓
CT737: Performance Studies ✓ ✓ - ✓ ✓


Assessment Plan:

  • Classroom discussion, semester-end examinations on understanding of subjects (for the 1st semester coursework).
  • Preparation of Plan of Research (2nd semester).
  • Progress seminar presentation at the end of every semester (3rd semester onwards).
  • Assignments of different kinds (such as, book reviews, film criticism, drafting of articles/chapters/questionnaires, etc.)
  • Academic publications in accepted journals.
  • Writing of the doctoral thesis.
  • Pre-Thesis presentation.
  • Evaluation of the thesis by external examiners.
  • Oral defense of the thesis to be evaluated by external examiner.


Click on the Course Codes below for respective syllabus-contents.

CT728: Introduction to Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of distinctive theoretical ideas and debates in various theoretical/philosophical schools related to the field of cultural studies.
CO2: Identify key texts and authors that have shaped the discipline of cultural studies.
CO3: Link the different movements that have shaped the discipline of cultural studies.
Course Contents:
Introduction to Cultural Studies and Critical Theory introduces the students to the origin and evolution of the discipline of Cultural Studies and locates it in different spatial domains like the U.K. and the United States and how recently it has become an important discipline in the school of humanities and liberal arts in Asia in locations like Hong Kong and India. It will also try to orient the research scholars to the historical and theoretical inevitability of the discipline in India and how it is mediating local, national and global concerns.
Suggested Readings:
Barker, Chris. (2008). Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Sage.
Brooker, Peter. (2000). A Glossary of Cultural Theory. London: Arnold.
Chen, Kuan Hsing. (ed) (1998). Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.
During, Simon. (2003). The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge.
Edgar, Andrew and Peter Sedgwick. (2004). Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London: Routledge.
Ferguson, Marjorie. (1983). Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity Aldershot: Gower.
Foucault, M. and Paul Rabinow. (eds) (1991). The Foucault Reader. London: Penguin.
Fuery, Patrick and Nick Mansfield (2001). Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. London: OUP.
Hall, Stuart. (ed) (1997). Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Hoggart, R. (1957). The Uses of Literacy. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Nayar, Pramod K. (2008). An Introduction to Cultural Studies. New Delhi: Viva Books.
Storey, John (ed) (1994). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Williams, Raymond. (1958). Culture and Society 1780 – 1950. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT729: Research Methodology
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Develop scientific temperament in social enquiry.
CO2: Build the fieldwork techniques.
CO3: Categorize research paradigm of social science research.
CO4: Examine critically the different approaches of cultural studies.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Philosophical Foundations and Empirical Social Research, Relevance of Methodology, Objectivity and Subjectivity, the Myth of Value-Free Research, the Quest for Universals in Research.
Unit 2: Research Methods with special reference to Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Study, Audience and Reception Studies; feminism and research: Sexism in Research, Feminism and Epistemology.
Unit 3: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods: Data Collection, Analysis and Interpretation, Computer Applications, Technical Writing, Ethics of Research, Plagiarism and Intellectual Property Rights.
Unit 4: Textual Approaches to Cultural Studies: Semiotics, Narrative Theory and Deconstruction; the political economic approach to Cultural Studies.
Suggested Readings:
Barry Barnes, David Bloor & John Henry (eds.) (1996). Scientific knowledge: a sociological analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bell, Judith. (1999). Doing your Research Project: A Guide for first-time Researchers in Education and Social Science Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Couldry, Nick. (2000). Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies. London: Sage.
McNeill, Patrick and Steve Chapman. (2005). Research methods. London: Routledge.
Neuman, W. Lawrence (2004). Basics of Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Boston: Pearson.
Nigel Gilbert (ed). (2001). Researching Social Life. California: Sage.
Pickering, Michael. (2008). Research Methods for Cultural Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Seale, Clive (ed). (2004). Social Research Methods: A Reader. London; New York: Routledge.
Tudor, Andrew. (1999). Decoding Culture: Theory and Methods in Cultural Studies. London: Sage.
Vinken, Henk Joseph Soeters and Peter Ester (eds.) (2004). Comparing Cultures: Dimensions of Culture in a Comparative Perspective. Boston: Brill.
White, Mimi and James Schwoch (eds.) (2006). Questions of Method in Cultural Studies. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
RP799: Research and Publication Ethics
L = 1, T=1, P=0, CH=2, CR=2
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Develop philosophical and rational thinking and the scientific temperament for professional research.
CO2: Develop practicing the legal and ethical norms for academic publication.
CO3: Demonstrate knowledge of various indexing standards globally followed for academic publications.
Course Contents:
Theory:
RPE01: Philosophy and Ethics: Introduction to philosophy definition, nature and scope, concept, branches; Ethics: definition, moral philosophy, nature of moral judgements and reactions.
RPE02: Scientific Conduct: Ethics with respect to science and research; Intellectual honesty and research integrity; Scientific misconduct: Falsification, Fabrication, and Plagiarism (FFP); Redundant Publications: Duplicate and overlapping publications, salami slicing; Selective reporting and misrepresentation of data.
RPE03: Publication Ethics: Publication ethics: definition, introduction and importance; Best practices / standards settings initiatives and guidelines: COPE, WAME, etc.; Conflicts of interest; Publication misconduct: definition, concept, problems that lead to unethical behaviours and vice versa, types; Violation of publication ethics, authorship and contributorship; Predatory publishers and journals.
Practice:
RPE04: Open Access Publishing: Open access publications and initiatives; SHERPA / RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright and self-archiving policies; Software tool to identify predatory publications developed by SPPU; Journal finder / journal suggestion tools, viz. JANE, Elsevier journal finder, Springer journal suggester, etc.
RPE05: Publication Misconduct:Group discussions: Subject specific ethical issues, FFP, authorship; Conflicts of interest; Complaints and appeals: examples and fraud from India and abroad. Software tools: Use of plagiarism software like Turnitin, Urkund and other open-source software tools.
RPE06: Databases and Research Metrices: Databases:Indexing databases, Citation databases: Web of Sciences, Scopus, etc. Research Metrices:Impact Factor of journals as per Journal Citation Report, SNIP, SJR, IPP, Cite Score. Metrices: h-index, g-index, i10-index, altmetrics
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT731: Folklore and Culture
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Link the worldview of folk community in contemporary period.
CO2: Analyze various theories of folkloristics.
CO3: Appraise the dynamics of folklore data in new media.
CO4: Assess new theories of folkloristics in the post-colonial period.
CO5: Examine critically globalization and its forms of knowledge production.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Introduction to Folkloristics.
Unit 2: Theoretical Approaches to Folkloristics.
Unit 3: Contemporary Trends in Folkloristics.
Suggested Readings:
Appadurai, Arjun and Korom, Frank J. and Mills, Margaret A. (eds.). (1994). Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas
Bauman, Richard. (1992). Folklore, Cultural Performance and Popular Entertainment. New York: Oxford University Press.
Blackburn, Stuart and A.K. Ramanujan. (ed). (1986). Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India. Berkley: University of California Press.
Claus, Peter J. and Frank J. Korom. (1991). Folkloristics and Indian Folklore. Udupi: Regional Resource Centre for Folk Performing Arts.
Dundes, A. (1980). Interpreting Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
George, Robert A. and Michael Owen Jones. (1995). Folkloristics: An Introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Narayan, Kirin. (1997). Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nettl, Bruno. (2005). The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts. University of Illinois Press.
Ramanujan, A. K. (1994). Folktales from India. Penguin India.
Trubshaw, Bob. (2002). Explore Folklore. Loughborough: Heart of Albion Press.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT732: Culture and Communication
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Demonstrate critical understanding of the forms and institutions of mass communication.
CO2: Link media and its contents to appropriation and negotiation of, and resistance to, identity politics.
CO3: Link media communications to ideology and globalization.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Television, Text and Audience.
Unit 2: Film and Society.
Unit 3: Visual Culture and Digital Media.
Suggested Readings:
Bazin, Andre. (1971). What is Cinema? Vols 1 & 2. Berkeley & London: University of California Press.
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. (2017). Film Art: An Introduction, Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw Hill.
Care, James W. (1989). Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. New York: Routledge.
Chakravarty, Sumita. (1996). National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema: 1947-1987. Bombay Calcutta Madras: Oxford University Press.
Curran, James and Morley, David. (2006). Media and Cultural Theory. New York: Routledge.
Durham, Meenakshi Gigi and Kellner, Douglas. (eds). (2001). Media and Cultural studies: Key Works. Massachusetts: Wiley Blackwell.
Grossberg, Lawrence. (1998). Media Marketing: Mass Media in Popular Culture. New Delhi: Sage.
Hill, Paul and Pamela Church Gibson (eds). (1998). Oxford Guide to Film Studies. London: Oxford University Press.
Kellner, Douglas. (1995). Media Culture. London: Routledge.
Morley, David. (2005). Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.
Stam, Robert. (2000). Film Theory: An Introduction. Malden, Massachusetts & Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Vasudev, Aruna. (1986). The New Indian Cinema. Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd.
Vasudevan, Ravi. (ed). (2000). Making Meaning in Indian Cinema. London: Oxford University Press.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT733: Subjectivity and Representation
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Demonstrate critical understanding of the sex and gender in relation to identity.
CO2: Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the development of various waves of feminism.
CO3: Analyze critically the gendered representations in media.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Sex, Gender and Identity.
Unit 2: Feminism and Cultural Studies.
Unit 3: Gender, Representation and Media Culture.
Suggested Readings:
Aggarwal, Bina. (1988). Structures of Patriarchy. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
Butler, Judith. (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge.
Butler, Judith. (1993). Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge.
Irigaray, Luce. (1993). Sexes and Genealogies. New York: Columbia University Press.
Jain, Jasbir and Sudha Rai. 2002. Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema. Delhi: Rawat.
Kristeva, Julia. (1980). Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Columbia University Press.
Lerner, Gerda. (1986). The Creation of Patriarchy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Mary Eagleton (ed.). (1988). Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Mulvey, Laura. (2009). Visual and Other Pleasures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Ruth, Sheila. (1990). Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies. California: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. (eds). (2006). Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History. New Delhi: Zubaan.
Shulamith, Firestone. (1971). The Dialectic of Sex. New York: Bantam Books.
Thapar, Suruchi. (2006). Women in The Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930-42. New Delhi: Sage.
Weitz, Rose. (1998). The politics of women’s bodies: Sexuality, appearance and behaviour. New York: Oxford University Press
Woolf, Virginia. (1995). Killing the Angel in the House. London: Penguin.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT734: Ethnicity, Race and Nation
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Analyze the notion of ethnicity as a source of power and politics.
CO2: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the current ethnicity problem especially in North East Indian context.
CO3: Explain different race and relook the context of racism.
CO4: Link diaspora, hybrid identities and culture struggles.
CO5: Develop the independent ability to study critically the emergence of newer ethnicities, especially in locations like North East of India.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Race and Ethnicity.
Unit 2: National Identities.
Unit 3: Diaspora and Hybrid Identities.
Suggested Readings:
Anderson, Benedict. (1983). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.
Back, L and J. Solomos (eds) (2000). Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader. London: Routledge.
Baruah, Sanjib. (2007). Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of North East India. New Delhi: Oxford.
Baruah, Sanjib. (2008.) India Against Itself. New Delhi: OUP.
Bhabha, Homi K. (ed.). (1990). Nation and Narration. London: Routledge.
Bhabha, Homi K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
Bhattacharjee, S & R. Dev (eds.). (2006). Ethno Narratives: Identity and Experience in North East India. Delhi: Anshah Publishers.
Bhaumik, Subir. (2009). Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India’s North East. New Delhi: Sage.
Biswas, Prasenjit. (2008). Ethnic Life-Worlds in North-East India. An Analysis. New Delhi: Sage
Chatterjee, Partha. (1993). Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? London: Zed books.
Chatterjee, Partha. (1993). The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: PU Press.
Danda, Ajit K. (1991). Ethnicity in India. New Delhi: DK Publishers.
Fenton, S. (1999). Ethnicity: Racism, Class and Culture. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Fenton, S. (2003). Ethnicity. Cambridge: Polity.
Gellner, Ernest. (1983). Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell.
Hobsbawm, E.J. (1990). Nations and Nationalism since 1870. New York: CUP.
Hussain Monirul. (2008). Interrogating Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India. New Delhi: Sage.
Jenkins, Richard. (2008). Rethinking Ethnicity. New Delhi: Sage.
Pakem, B. (ed.). (1990). Nationality, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in North East India. Guwahati: Omsons Publications.
Sollors, Warner. (ed) (1989). The Invention of Ethnicity. New York: OUP.
Verghese, B. George. (1996). India’s North East Resurgent: Ethnicity, Insurgence, Governance, Development. Delhi: Konark Publishers .
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT735: North East Studies
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Analyze the spatiality and the liminality of the North East in relation to geography, culture, politics, history, development rhetoric and national imagination.
CO2: Demonstrate empirical knowledge of diverse ethnicities and their traditional expressive forms of NE India.
CO3: Discover the ongoing processes identity construction and maintenance in various ethnic constituencies of NE India .
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Culture Society and Identity.
Unit 2: North East and the National Imagination.
Unit 3: Expressive Cultures of North East India.
Suggested Readings:
Baruah, Sanjib. (2007). Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of North East India. New Delhi: Oxford.
Bhaumik, Subir. (2009). Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India’s North East. New Delhi: Sage.
Das, B.M. (1987). The Peoples of Assam. Delhi: Gian Publishing House.
Das, B.M. (1990). North East India: Its People and Culture. Lucknow: Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society.
Das, Samir Kumar. (2008). Blisters on Their feet: Tales of Internally Displaced Persons in India’s North East. New Delhi: Sage.
Deb, B.J. (ed.). (2006). Ethnic Issues, Secularism and Conflict Resolution in North East India. New Delhi: Concept Publishers.
Elwin, Verrier. (1997). Nagaland. Guwahati: Spectrum Publications.
Elwin, Verrier. (1998). The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography. Delhi: OUP.
Elwin, Verrier. (2009). The Oxford India Elwin: Selected Writings. Delhi: OUP.
Elwin, Verrier. (2009). A Philosophy for NEFA. Delhi: Isha Books.
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von. (1962). The Apa Tanis and their Neighbours: A Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Himalayas. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von. (1980). A Himalayan Tribe: From Cattle to Cash. Delhi: Vikas Publishing House.
Hussain, Monirul. (2008). Interrogating Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India. New Delhi: Sage.
Hutton, J. H. (1928). ‘The Significance of Head-Hunting in Assam’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 58, 399-408.
Kumar, B. B. (ed.) (2007). Problems of Ethnicity in North East India. New Delhi: Concept.
Misra, Udayon. (1998). North East India: Quest for Identity. Guwahati: Omsons Publications.
Misra, Udayon. (2000). The Periphery Strikes Back. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advance Study.
Verghese, B. George. (1996). India’s North East Resurgent: Ethnicity, Insurgence, Governance, Development. Delhi: Konark Publishers.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT736: Heritage Studies
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Demonstrate thorough understanding of the concept of heritage along with modernity.
CO2: Analyze heritage from the community’s perspectives.
CO3: Examine the political and economic usages of heritage.
CO4: Link heritage to environment.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Heritage and Community.
Unit 2: Heritage and Leisure Industry.
Unit 3: Heritage and Environment.
Suggested Readings:
Anheier, Helmut and Isar, Yudhisthir Raj (2011). Heritage, Memory & Identity. Sage, London.
Ashworth, G. J., Graham, B. J. and Tunbridge, J. E. (2007). Pluralising Pasts: Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies. Pluto Press, London & Ann Arbor.
Sørensen, M. L. S., & Carman, J. (Eds.). (2009). Heritage studies: Methods and approaches. Routledge.
Corner, J., & Harvey, S. (Eds.). (1991). Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture. Psychology Press.
Lowenthal, D. (2015). The Past is a Foreign Country-Revisited. Cambridge University Press.
Stefano, M. L., & Davis, P. (Eds.). (2016). The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage. Taylor & Francis.
Ashworth, G. J., Graham, B. and Tunbridge, J. E. (2007). Pluralising Pasts. Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies. London: Pluto Press.
Bedekar, V. H. (1999). New Museology for India. National Museum Institute, New Delhi.
Boswell, D. and Evans, J. (eds) (1999). Representing the Nation: A Reader—Histories, Heritage and Museums. London and New York: Routledge.
Brett, D. (1996). The Construction of Heritage. Cork University Press, Cork.
Davis, Peter (1999). Ecomuseums: A Sense of Place. Leicester University Press.
Dicks, B. (2000). Heritage, Place and Community. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Corsane, Gerard (ed.) (2005). Museums, Heritage and Galleries: An Introductory Reader. Routledge.
Graham, B., Ashworth, G. J. and Tunbridge, J. E. (2000). A Geography of Heritage: Power, Culture and Economy. London: Arnold.
Howard, P. (2003). Heritage: Management, Interpretation, Identity. London and New York: Continuum.
Kaplan, F. E. S. (ed) (1994). Museums and the Making of 'Ourselves': The Role of Objects in National Identity. London and New York: Leicester University Press.
Karp, I. and Lavine, S. D. (eds) (1991). Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Karp, I., Kraemer, C. M. and Lavine, S. D. (eds) (1992). Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
MacCannell, D. (1999). The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. 2nd edition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
McIntyre, D. and Wehner, K. (eds) (2001). National Museums: Negotiating Histories. Canberra: National Museum of Australia.
Smith & Akagawa (2009). Intangible Heritage. Routledge.
Timothy, D. and Boyd, S. (2003). Heritage Tourism. Harlow: Prentice Hall.
Walsh, Kevin (1992). The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World. Routledge.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit
CT737: Performance Studies
L = 2, T=2, P=0, CH=4, CR=4
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Examine performance as an object and means of communication within various domains of cultural realms.
CO2: Identify the ideologies and values inherent in the performances of various types and categories.
CO3: Illustrate themes and issues concerning performance.
CO4: Analyze how performance creates gender and ethnic identity in diverse contexts of traditional as well as popular cultural contexts .
Course Contents:
Unit 1: Introduction to Performance Studies.
Unit 2: Performance and Communication.
Unit 3: Performance and Ideology .
Suggested Readings:
Bean, Annemarie. (1999). A sourcebook of African-American performance: plays, people, movements. New York: Routledge.
Bharucha, Rustom. (2001). Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization. New Delhi: OUP.
Bial, Henry. (ed.). (2004). The Performance Studies Reader. London: Routledge.
Carlson, Marvin A. (2001). Performance: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
Desmond, Jane C. (ed.). (1997). Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Goodman, Lizbeth and de Gay, Jane. (eds.). (2000). The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance. London: Routledge.
Huxley, Michael and Witts, Noel (ed.). (2002). The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader. London: Routledge.
Turner, Victor. (1982). From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play. PAJ Publications.
Schechner, Richard. (2002). Performance Studies: An Introduction. Routledge.
Schechner, Richard. (1985). Between Theatre and Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Turner, Victor. (1986). The Anthropology of Performance. PAJ Publications.
*L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical, CH = Contact Hour, CR = Credit