TY - BOOK ID - 77862050 TI - The lost land of Lemuria PY - 2004 SN - 0520931858 159734723X 9786612357695 1282357697 9780520931855 9781597347235 1417545283 9781417545285 0520240324 9780520240322 0520244400 9780520244405 9781282357693 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Civilization, Ancient. KW - Tamil (Indic people) KW - Lost continents. KW - Tamal (Indic people) KW - Tamalsan (Indic people) KW - Tambul (Indic people) KW - Tamili (Indic people) KW - Tamils KW - Ethnology KW - Continents KW - Geographical myths KW - Ancient civilization KW - History. KW - Tamil Nadu (India) KW - Lemuria. KW - Civilization. KW - africa. KW - anthropology. KW - antiquity. KW - archaeology. KW - art history. KW - atlantis. KW - australia. KW - charles darwin. KW - civilization. KW - colonial. KW - colonialism. KW - darwinism. KW - ethnography. KW - evolution. KW - geographic. KW - geography. KW - geology. KW - grief. KW - himalayas. KW - indian ocean. KW - lemuria. KW - loss. KW - maps. KW - occult. KW - occultism. KW - pacific ocean. KW - racism. KW - regional. KW - tamil. KW - tibet. KW - utopian. KW - world history. KW - Lemuria KW - Atlantis KW - Victorian-era science KW - Euro-American occultism KW - colonial India KW - postcolonial India KW - hidden cilizations KW - mythological places UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862050 AB - 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 civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery-and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day. ER -