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Author : Tulasi Srinivas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1438495277
A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.
Author : Tulasi Srinivas
Publisher : Suny Series in Religious Studi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438495285
A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.
Author : Tulasi Srinivas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438495293
The experience of wonder—encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication—and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women's charitable practices, Kipling's Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.
Author : Simon Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060590653
These Are Translations Of Tales Of Wonder, With Miraculous Or Fantastic Elements From Four Different Asian Languages. A Final Chapter Deals With The Background Of These Still-Current Stories, With Histories That Sometimes Stretch Back To Ancient India. Like New.
Author : Natasha Eaton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000262551
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.
Author : Simon Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000111569806
Wonder-Tales of South Asia contains translations that Simon Digby has made over the years of tales of wonder, with miraculous or fantastic elements, from four different Asian languages.
Author : United States. Department of State,Louis J. Smith
Publisher : Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004822422
This volume, part of the ongoing official record of U.S. foreign policy, presents key documentation on the Nixon Administration's policy immediately prior to and during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Included in this volume is full coverage of the "tilt" toward Pakistan by President Richard Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger. Viewed Aug. 3, 2005.
Author : Dhananjay Tripathi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000333220
This book presents a radical rethinking of Border Studies. Framing the discipline beyond conventional topics of spatiality and territoriality, it presents a distinctly South Asian perspective – a post-colonial and post-partition region where most borders were drawn with political motives, ignoring the socio-cultural realities of the region and economic necessities of the people. The authors argue that while securing borders is an essential function of the state, in this interconnected world, crossing borders and border cooperation is also necessary. The book examines contemporaneous and topical themes like disputes of identity and nationhood, the impact of social media on Border Studies, trans-border cooperation, water-sharing between countries, and resolution of border problems in the age of liberalisation and globalisation. It also suggests ways of enhancing cross-border economic cooperation and connectivity, and reviews security issues from a new perspective. Well supplemented with case studies, the book will serve as an indispensable text for scholars and researchers of Border Studies, military and strategic studies, international relations, geopolitics, and South Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to think tanks and government agencies, especially those dealing with foreign relations.
Author : Andrew Teverson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351609944
The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances of the societies in which they are produced. The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective and broadens the international, cultural, and critical scope of fairy-tale studies. Throughout the five parts, the volume challenges the previously Eurocentric focus of fairy-tale studies, with contributors looking at: • the contrast between traditional, canonical fairy tales and more modern reinterpretations; • responses to the fairy tale around the world, including works from every continent; • applications of the fairy tale in diverse media, from oral tradition to the commercialized films of Hollywood and Bollywood; • debates concerning the global and local ownership of fairy tales, and the impact the digital age and an exponentially globalized world have on traditional narratives; • the fairy tale as told through art, dance, theatre, fan fiction, and film. This volume brings together a selection of the most respected voices in the field, offering ground-breaking analysis of the fairy tale in relation to ethnicity, colonialism, feminism, disability, sexuality, the environment, and class. An indispensable resource for students and scholars alike, The Fairy Tale World seeks to discover how such a traditional area of literature has remained so enduringly relevant in the modern world.
Author : Alice D. Ba
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804776301
This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of lesser, self-identified Southeast Asian powers gone beyond its original regional purview to shape the form and content of Asian Pacific and East Asian regionalisms? According to Alice Ba, the answers lie in ASEAN's founding arguments: arguments that were premised on an assumed regional disunity. She demonstrates how these arguments draw critical causal connections that make Southeast Asian regionalism a necessary response to problems, give rise to its defining informality and consensus-seeking process, and also constrain ASEAN's regionalism. Tracing debates about ASEAN's intra- and extra-regional relations over four decades, she argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds light on intervening processes of argument and debate, and highlights interacting material, ideational, and social forces in the construction of regions and regionalisms.
Author : Jonathan M. Kenoyer,Kimberley Burton Heuston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195222432
Learn about the history and civilizations from ancient South Asia through the study of a variety of archaeological discoveries.
Author : Tulasi Srinivas
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822370646
In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder—a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder—apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples—into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.
Author : Diane P. Mines,Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253354730
An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia
Author : Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820360898
In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.
Author : Jenny Linford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780711240223
This book looks at the seven most important ingredients in world cuisine: rice, salt, honey, pork, tomato, chili and cacao.