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Soneji
Soneji is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Davesh Soneji Davesh Soneji is a social historian working in the field of performing arts, addressing issues of gender, class, and caste especially in the colonial context. He teaches in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His ..., academic * Manav Soneji, Indian actor {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davesh Soneji
Davesh Soneji is a social historian working in the field of performing arts, addressing issues of gender, class, and caste especially in the colonial context. He teaches in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses on religion and the performing arts in South India His best known work is ''Unfinished Gestures: Devadāsīs, Memory, and Modernity in South Indi''a; it was awarded the 2013 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from The Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Soneji has held positions as visiting professor at the Central University of Hyderabad in India and Le Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) in Paris. He has previously taught at McGill University in Montreal, Canada for over twelve years. Bibliography * ''Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India'' (2011) University of Chicago Press. * ''Bharatanatyam: A Reader'' (2012) Oxford University Press. * ''Performing Pasts: Reinventing the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
