[Linganth] Barney Bate's book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I am so glad that CaMP anthropology can honor Barney Bate's memory today by
posting an interview
with the three generous souls who finished editing his book post-mortem,
E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis.   Hannah Carlan
discusses his book
with all three editors here:

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb for Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern:

Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united
 communities and mobilized movements. *Protestant*
*Textuality and the Tamil Modern* examines this phenomenon
in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries,
charting the development of political oratory and its influence
 on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival
work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction
of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local
 vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious
speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize
 support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to
Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this
ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies
 and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in
the modern era.
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