<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
I am so glad that CaMP anthropology can honor Barney Bate's memory
today by posting an interview<br>
with the three generous souls who finished editing his book
post-mortem, </font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V.
Nakassis. Hannah Carlan discusses his book<br>
with all three editors here:<br>
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<a href="https://campanthropology.org/" target="_blank">https://campanthropology.org</a><br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Ilana<br>
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Press blurb for Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united<br>
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communities and mobilized movements. <i>Protestant</i><i><br>
</i><i>Textuality and the Tamil Modern</i> examines this phenomenon<br>
in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries,<br>
charting the development of political oratory and its
influence<br>
on society. Supplementing his
narrative with thorough archival<br>
work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction<br>
of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local<br>
vernacularization. What originally began as a format of
religious<br>
speech became an essential political infrastructure used to
galvanize<br>
support for new social imaginaries, from Indian
independence to<br>
Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues,
this<br>
ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance
studies<br>
and political history, illuminating new geographies of
belonging in<br>
the modern era. <br></div></div>