Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds /
"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 Wor...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.