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Author : Joseph Charles Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Twenty Four Brothers and Lord Devnārāyaṇ written by Joseph Charles Miller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Charles Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Twenty Four Brothers and Lord Devnārāyaṇ written by Joseph Charles Miller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408801248
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Nine Lives written by William Dalrymple and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Author : Ann Grodzins Gold
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249259
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Shiptown written by Ann Grodzins Gold and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Grodzins Gold weaves together an integrated series of ethnographic sketches depicting the distinctive nature of non-urban, non-rural places; the impact locality has on belonging; the negotiations of difference required in a pluralistic society; and the ways a changing environment permeates experiences of self and place.
Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791476345
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native. Book jacket.
Author : Tryna Lyons
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253344175
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The Artists of Nathadwara written by Tryna Lyons and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated look at the lives and careers of North Indian artists
Author : Julie A. Jacko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540731113
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Applications and Services written by Julie A. Jacko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the fourth of a four-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007, held in Beijing, China, jointly with eight other thematically similar conferences. It covers business applications; learning and entertainment; health applications; work and collaboration support; web-based and mobile applications; as well as, advanced design and development support.
Author : Ute Husken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136517936
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Ritual Matters written by Ute Husken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.
Author : Shail Mayaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832571
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism written by Shail Mayaram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It highlights shifts over two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana.
Author : Lindsey Harlan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195154269
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Goddesses' Henchmen written by Lindsey Harlan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the worship of ancestral heroes in Rajasthan, India. Arguing that Rajput hero stories and songs encapsulate and express ideals of perfection and masculinity, it analyzes representations of wives and goddesses as tacit allies dispatching sacrificed heroes to heavenly paradise.
Author : David Leeming
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288884
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Oxford Companion to World Mythology written by David Leeming and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology, or myth-logic, in history and determines that the dreams of specific cultures add up to a larger collective story of humanity. Stopping short of attempting to be all-inclusive, this fascinating volume will nonetheless be comprehensive, opening with an introduction exploring the nature and dimensions of myth and proposing a definition as a universal language. Briefly dipping into the ways our understanding of myth has changed from Aristotle and Plato to modern scholars such as Joseph Campbell, the introduction loosely places the concept in its present context and precedes articles on influential mythologists and mythological approaches that appear later in the Companion. The main body of Leeming's work consists of A-Z entries covering all aspects of mythology, including substantial essays on the world's major mythological traditions (Greek, Native American, Indian, Japanese, Sumerian, Egyptian), mythological types and motifs (Descent to the Underworld, the Hero, the Trickster, Creation, the Quest), mythological figures (Odysseus, Zeus, Osiris, Spider Woman, and Inanna) as well as numerous interrelated subjects such as fairly tales and legends. The Companion also locates myth in our lives today, relating it to language patterns, psychology, religion, politics, art, and gender attitudes. Many of the better-known and more significant myths are vividly retold in this volume that will be illustrated with maps, more than 70 black and white images, and eight pages of color highlighting the central role art has often played in the transmission and perpetuation of myth. Following the entries, a rich section of appendices will include family trees of the major pantheons, equivalency charts for the gods of Greece and Rome, Babylon and Sumer, as well as other traditions, an extensive bibliography, and an index.
Author : Tanuja Kothiyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107080312
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Nomadic Narratives written by Tanuja Kothiyal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the emergence of socio-historical identities in the Thar Desert with the mobility of its inhabitants"--
Author : John Napier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602131
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book They Sing the Wedding of God written by John Napier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the Nath-Jogis, sing stories of kings who renounce their thrones to become wandering mendicants. They also sing of a god, Mahadeva, Shiva, who must abandon his world-renouncing life and marry, thus establishing the very caste that tells his story. This is the first detailed ethnomusicological study of the music of this caste, examining how the existential questions of the sung stories—of the conflict between loyalty to families or communities and the transcending desire to renounce the material world—are articulated in musical performances in which the caste’s own ethnography is inscribed. Discussing the relationship between the performed repertoire and the caste’s identity, the contexts of performance and ways in which familiar stories are effectively retold, the book offers a transcription, translation and musical and ethnographic analysis of one performance, by Kishori Nath, and shows how the questions the performances project are not merely speculative acts of self-identification but also challenges to audiences to consider their own responses.
Author : Daniel M. Neuman
Publisher : Seagull Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bards, Ballads and Boundaries written by Daniel M. Neuman and published by Seagull Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. The atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India.
Author : Aditya Malik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198034202
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath written by Aditya Malik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed study of the oral narrative of Shri Devnarayan along with the first English translation of this popular Rajasthani folk narrative. The narrative extolling the deeds of Lord Devnarayan is performed by itinerant singers during all night vigils in front of a 9-meter long, elaborately painted cloth scroll that depicts scenes and characters from the story. Aditya Malik uses the narrative to explore and ask a range of innovative questions relevant to the study of Indian folk culture and Hinduism as a whole: How is orality conceptualized and practiced? What is the relationship between spoken and visual signs? How do Devnarayan's devotees create multiple discourses concerning religion, community, and history within and though the medium of the narrative? Malik's analysis suggests that the narrative provides a framework for establishing linkages between different communities, past and present, spoken word and visual image, as well as contending religious ideologies. His interpretation is interspersed with excerpts from interviews with devotees and singers, other tales and texts, and observations from his field research that together invoke the worlds created by the narrative.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Middle East & South Asia Folklore Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Om Prakash Joshi
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Painted Folklore and Folklore Painters of India written by Om Prakash Joshi and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
