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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004473959
Author : Mary M. Cameron
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252067169
Drawing on data from work, family, and religious domains, addresses the relationship between gender and Hindu caste hierarchy in western Nepal.
Author : John Braisted Carman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802806937
Author : Alan Barnard,Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135236410
Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.
Author : Linda Penkower,Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611173901
Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of “marginal” contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic, social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings where ritual itself or direct discussion of ritual is absent; in contexts that create new opportunities for traditionally marginalized participants or challenge the received tradition; and via theoretical perspectives that have been undervalued in the academy. In the first of three sections, contributors explore the ways in which Hindu ritual performed in Indian contexts intersects with historical, contextual, and social change. They examine the changing significance and understanding of particular deities, the identity and agency of ritual actors, and the instrumentality of ritual in new media. Essays in the second section examine ritual practices outside of India, focusing on evolving ritual claims to authority in mixed cultures (such as Malaysia), the reshaping of gender dynamics of ritual at an American temple, and the democratic reshaping of ritual forms in Canadian Hindu communities. The final section considers the implications for ritual studies of the efficacy of bodily acts divorced from intention, contemporary spiritual practice as opposed to religious-bound ritual, and the notion of dharma. Based on a conference on Hindu ritual held in 2006 at the University of Pittsburgh, Hindu Ritual at the Margins seeks to elucidate the ways ritual actors come to shape ritual practices or conceptions pertaining to ritual and how studying ritual in marginal contexts—at points of dynamic tension—requires scholars to reshape their understanding of ritual activity.
Author : Douglas Renfrew Brooks
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791497685
Rooting itself in Kashmir Shaivism, Śrividyā became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and eventually supplanted the Trika as the dominant Tantric tradition in Kashmir. This is the first comprehensive study of the texts and traditions of this influential school of goddess-centered, Śākta, Tantrism. Centering on the goddess's three manifestations—the beneficent deity Lalita Tripurasundari, her mantra, and the visually striking sricakra—Śrividyā creates a systematic esoteric discipline that combines elements of the yogas of knowledge, of devotion, and of ritual. Utilizing canonical works, historical commentaires, and the interpretive insights of living practitioners, this book explores the theological and ritual theories that form the basis for Śrividyā practice and offers new methods for critical and comparative studies of esoteric Hinduism.
Author : Gavin Flood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470998687
An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism Ideal for use on university courses.
Author : Vidya Dehejia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 023151266X
The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is always richly adorned. Alankara (ornament) protects the body and makes it complete and attractive; to be unornamented is to invite misfortune. In The Body Adorned, Vidya Dehejia, who has dedicated her career to the study of Indian art, draws on the literature of court poets, the hymns of saints and acharyas, and verses from inscriptions to illuminate premodern India's unique treatment of the sculpted and painted form. She focuses on the coexistence of sacred and sensuous images within the common boundaries of Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu "sacred spaces," redefining terms like "sacred" and "secular" in relation to Indian architecture. She also considers the paradox of passionate poetry, in which saints praised the sheer bodily beauty of the divine form, and nonsacred Rajput painted manuscripts, which freely inserted gods into the earthly realm of the courts. By juxtaposing visual and literary sources, Dehejia demonstrates the harmony between the sacred and the profane in classical Indian culture. Her synthesis of art, literature, and cultural materials not only generates an all-inclusive picture of the period but also revolutionizes our understanding of the cultural ethos of premodern India.
Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438416182
This book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the development of saakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and prakr(materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic period, clarifying how these principles became central to her theology.
Author : Constantina Rhodes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438433226
A multi-faceted portrait of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. Includes translations of verses used to invoke this goddess.
Author : Heinrich von Stietencron,Peter Flamm
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Epic literature
ISBN : 3447030283
Author : Rosa Maria Perez
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8180280144
This Book Presents Fieldwork Done On The Vankar A Caste Of Untouchable Weavers In Gujarat. This Book Confronts The Western Perception Of Untouchability With The Notion Of Reversibility, And A Fresh Translation Of Social Norms.
Author : Paolo Pacciolla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000060010
The book studies the evolution of the ancient drum mṛdaṅga into the pakhāvaj, crossing more than 2,000 years of history. While focusing on the Nathdwara school of pakhāvaj, the author joins ethnographic, historical, religious and iconographic perspectives to argue a multifaceted interpretation of the role and function of the pakhāvaj in royal courts, temples and contemporary stages. Furthermore, he offers the first analysis of the visual and narrative contents of its repertoire.
Author : Karin Kapadia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429965876
A study of the impact of caste and class on conceptions of gender, this book focuses on the lower castes/classes of South India. Examining the lives and work of ‘untouchable’ women in a village in Tamilnadu, the author explores the recently articulated critique of feminism that race, caste, and class may be more important factors than gender in a p
Author : Dr Alan Barnard,Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134450909
This is the only encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology to cover fully the many important areas of overlap between anthropology and related disciplines. This work also covers key terms, ideas and people, thus eliminating the need to refer to other books for specific definitions or biographies. Special features include: * over 230 substantial entries on every major idea, individual and sub-discipline of social and cultural anthropology * over 100 international contributors * a glossary of more than 600 key terms and ideas.
