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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Glavni autor: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (Autor)
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.