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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds /

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"Over the last few decades, there has been a renewed intellectual energy in religious studies around material culture; however, most of the attention has been focused on the ways humans use material objects and what specific materials reflect about humans. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds,...

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Huvudupphov: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Ämnen:
Hinduism and culture.
Material culture > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Culture materielle > Aspect religieux > Hindouisme.
Hindouisme et culture > Inde.
Hinduism and culture > India.
India.
Electronic books.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Introduction
  • Agency of ornaments : identity, protection, and auspiciousness
  • Saris and turmeric : performativity of the material guise
  • Material abundance and material excess : creating and serving two goddesses
  • Expanding shrines, changing architecture : from protector to protected goddesses
  • Standing in cement : Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains
  • Afterword: Returning to material acts.

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