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Author : Shanti Lal Nagar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034539398
Author : Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520064771
The sheer wealth and dizzying diversity of Indian sculpture are celebrated in this second volume of the catalogue raisonn� of the Los Angeles County Museum's collection. Nearly two hundred sculptures produced during eleven centuries are described. Of these, one-quarter of the pieces are part of the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, while the remaining three-quarters have been acquired since 1970. This splendid collection, while not representing all the major styles of sculpture that flourished on the Indian subcontinent from 700-1900, is certainly one of the most comprehensive among American and European museums. Included are stone, metal, ivory, and wood sculptures from fourteen states and territories of India and from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Organized by regions--Central and Western, Eastern, and Southern India, and the Northwest--the catalogue contains detailed descriptions and illustrations of the 188 sculptures, many with details or multiple views, for a total of 259 illustrations--251 in duotone and halftone and 8 in color.
Author : Walter Duvall Penrose Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191019500
Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there have been few concessions between the two schools of thought since. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in the ancient world, bridging the gap between myth and historical reality and expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype. By shifting the center of debate to the periphery of the region known to the Greeks, the startling conclusion emerges that the ancient Athenian conception of women as weak and fearful was not at all typical of the region of that time, even within Greece. Surrounding the Athenians were numerous peoples who held that women could be courageous, able, clever, and daring, suggesting that although Greek stories of Amazons may be exaggerations, they were based upon a real historical understanding of women who fought. While re-examining the sources of the Amazon myth, this compelling volume also resituates the Amazons in the broader context from which they have been extracted, illustrating that although they were the quintessential example of female masculinity in ancient Greek thought, they were not the only instance of this phenomenon: masculine women were masqueraded on the Greek stage, described in the Hippocratic corpus, took part in the struggle to control Alexander the Great's empire after his death, and served as bodyguards in ancient India. Against the backdrop of the ongoing debates surrounding gender norms and fluidity, Postcolonial Amazons breaks new ground as an ancient history of female masculinity and demonstrates that these ideas have a much longer and more durable heritage than we may have supposed.
Author : Philippa Adrych,Robert Bracey,Dominic Dalglish,Stefanie Lenk,Rachel Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192511119
With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place in Yazidi and Zoroastrian religion. But what connection have Mihr in Persia, Miiro in Kushan Bactria, and Mithras in the Roman Empire to one another? Over the course of the volume, specialists in the material culture of these diverse regions explore appearances of the name Mithra from six distinct locations in antiquity. In a subversion of the usual historical process, the authors begin not from an assessment of texts, but by placing images of Mithra at the heart of their analysis. Careful consideration of each example's own context, situating it in the broader scheme of religious traditions and on-going cultural interactions, is key to this discussion. Such an approach opens up a host of potential comparisons and interpretations that are often side-lined in historical accounts. What Images of Mithra offers is a fresh approach to the ways in which gods were labelled and depicted in the ancient world. Through an emphasis on material culture, a more nuanced understanding of the processes of religious formation is proposed in what is but the first part of the Visual Conversations series.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015060789495
Author : Jagdish S. Yadav,Nirmala Yadav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041926141
The Gupta Era, From The Fourth Through Sixth Century A.D. Is Generally Considered As India`S Golden Age. The Period Has, More Than Any Other Single Historical Period, Attracted Tremendous Scholarly Attention And Generated Vast Literature On Various Aspects Of The Period-History, Society, Economy, Religion, Literature, Archaeology, Architecture, Etc. Yet Until Now There Has Been No Single Bibliographic Source On The Guptas. The Imperial Guptas: A Bibliography Seeks To Fill This Gap.
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1664 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : South Asia
ISBN : IND:30000114652096
Author : Pedarapu Chenna Reddy,Inguva Karthikeya Sarma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015067829369
The Present Volumes Provide A Panoramic View Of Indian Historical Studies Covering Archaeology, Art And Architecture, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Iconography, Religion And Philosophy, Social And Economic History. The Papers In The Two Volumes And Add Significant Insights To Our Understanding Of The Various Facets Of Indian History, Culture And Archaeology. I Am Sure This Book Will Attract The Scholars, Students And Laymen Alike.
Author : Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical literature
ISBN : UVA:X004995838
Author : Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : IND:30000127034381
Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy--the marriage of a god and goddess--and a recreation of the life-cycle of earth. As Fabrizio M. Ferrari explains one of the most fascinating aspects of the gajan is its approach to gender. The central deity of the gajan is a goddess identified with the earth. To please such a goddess, male devotees must acknowledge the pain they inflict towards the female world and become "ritual women." Conversely, as part of the festival, women display their generative power and provoke the jealousy of men by ritually mocking conception and delivery. The outcome of the ritual is that their suffering is acknowledged and transformed into power. Much more than an ethnography of Bengali popular religion, Guilty Males and Proud Females contributes to new studies on gender transformation in the Bengal region and will be of interest to scholars of South Asian religions, folklore, and gender studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079882331
Author : Sudhir Chandra Mathur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UOM:39015041762710
Catalog of books on display at the 12th New Delhi World Book Fair, held at New Delhi in February 1996.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015073110721
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UIUC:30112101150677
Articles on antiquities, archaeology, monuments, history, culture, architecture, and arts of Chhattåisgarh, India.
Author : Bowker Editorial Staff,R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 2776 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0835238008
