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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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Autor principal: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Matèries:
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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Taula de continguts:
  • 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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