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Book Synopsis Possessed by the Virgin by : Kristin C. Bloomer
Download or read book Possessed by the Virgin written by Kristin C. Bloomer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in Tamil Nadu, south India who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. The author follows the lives of these women over many years, investigating questions about gender, social power, agency, and authenticity.
Author :Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :143848013X Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds by : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Download or read book Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted extensive fieldwork, she begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts to the presence of cement images of Ravana in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of material agency as well as the parameters of religion more broadly. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program at https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8716.
Book Synopsis Encounters Beyond the Gallery by : Renate Dohmen
Download or read book Encounters Beyond the Gallery written by Renate Dohmen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception, as well as anthropological theory for ways to create connections between seemingly disparate worlds. Embracing a unique and experimental format, the book imagines encounters between the art works and art worlds of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tamil women, the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru and a fictional female contemporary artist named Rikki T, in order to rethink normative aesthetic and cultural categories. Its method reflects the message of the book, and embraces a plurality of voices and perspectives to steer critical attention towards the complexity of artistic life beyond the gallery.
Book Synopsis Encountering Kali by : Rachel Fell McDermott
Download or read book Encountering Kali written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Kali explores one of the most ramarkable divinities the world has seen. The Hindu goddess Kali is simultaneously understood as a blood thirsty warrior a deity of ritual possession a tantric sexual partner and an all loving compassionate mothe. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the west in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon McDermott and Kripal`s volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kali in both her indigenous south Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnation. Through the shifting lenses of scriptural history temple architecture political reflection and the goddess`s recent guises on the Internet the contributors pose questions that illuminate our understanding of Kali while addressing the problems and promises inherent in every act of cross cultural interpretation.
Book Synopsis The Goddesses' Henchmen by : Lindsey Harlan
Download or read book The Goddesses' Henchmen written by Lindsey Harlan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rajputs ruled the vast majority of the kingdoms that were joined together after Indian independence to form the state of Rajasthan, "Land of Kings." An important part of Rajput religion is the worship of "heroes" who have died in battle. This practice has attained new significance in recent years, as right-wing Hindu activists have deployed narratives about heroism in Rajput wars with Muslim emperors. In this book, Lindsey Harlan explores the idea of the Rajput hero. She is particularly interested in the role played by gender in stories about heroes and in their worship. She looks at the differences between female and male storytellers, the relationships of the hero to the women in his tale, and the relationship of the hero to the goddess for whom he is both sacrifice and henchman. She obtains her materials from interviews with Rajput families and their servants, from songfests, from bystanders at shrines, from ritual specialists. Ultimately she shows how heroic traditions encapsulate and express ideals of perfection and masculinity, defined most visibly against the backdrop of domesticity and femininity. More broadly she argues that heroes reflect ever-changing valuations of history, and serve as sources of inspiration for facing contemporary challenges (domestic, communal, national) and concerns about the future.
Book Synopsis The Living and the Dead by : Liz Wilson
Download or read book The Living and the Dead written by Liz Wilson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.
Book Synopsis Dealing with Deities by : Selva J. Raj
Download or read book Dealing with Deities written by Selva J. Raj and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of lay religious activity, vow rituals are adopted by Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs who wish to commit themselves to ritually enacted relationships with sacred figures in order to gain earthly boons and spiritual merit. The contributors to this volume offer a fascinating look at the varieties and complexities of vows and also focus on a unique characteristic of this vow-taking culture, that of resorting to deities and shrines of other religions in defiance of institutional directives and religious boundaries. Richly illustrated, the book explores the creativity of South Asian devotees and their deeply felt convictions that what they require, they can achieve faithfully—and independently—by dealing directly with deities.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess by : William P. Harman
Download or read book The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess written by William P. Harman and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: supplemented by a commentary; both seek to emphasize how the teaching is
Book Synopsis Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge by : Priya Jha
Download or read book Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge written by Priya Jha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 20 years we have seen critical design studies emerge as a springboard for scholars, activists, and those working in the creative industries. Design studies has enabled critics to link the relationship between constructions of knowledge and the emotional commitments that both practitioners and audiences bring to the making and uses of design work. A critical focus on these practices can reveal issues such as the distribution of power and emotional evocations and experiences in and through different designs. At the same time, the use of design studies has drawn on diverse fields such as art history, architecture, public policy, and Geographic Information Systems. This collected volume, the first of its kind, engages with these fields of critical inquiry with ideas and debates in post-colonial studies, and in media and cultural studies. It contributes to a growing body of scholarship that examines material culture and its relationship between design and its construction of knowledge about multicultural identities in the colonial and postcolonial periods, with a focus on South Asia. The chapters pose questions about colonial history, colonial and postcolonial cultural practices, and the aestheticization of South Asian art, design, and media forms as they inform identities in a deterritorialized global culture. The sites of the investigation by the contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity of design studies and share the insistence on emphasizing the vernacular: Indian fashion design, lithographic design in Muslim princely states, and Indian floor drawings live alongside museum exhibitions, shopping malls, and film spaces. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
Author :Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Prof. E. Siva Nagi Reddy, Prof. K. Krishna Naik Publisher :Blue Rose Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :451 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Kalyana Mitra: Volume 12 by : Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Prof. E. Siva Nagi Reddy, Prof. K. Krishna Naik
Download or read book Kalyana Mitra: Volume 12 written by Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Prof. E. Siva Nagi Reddy, Prof. K. Krishna Naik and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XII: Tourism Studies contains 34 articles on various aspects of Tourism contributed by scholars in Tourism Sector. The topics covered in this volume include forms of Tourism, like Agri, film, cultural, eco, health pilgrimage, rural, Tribal, Wildlife tourism, Tourism development, tourist destinations. Tourism as an Industry, Tourism and Hospitality, and Tourism and Handicrafts.The volume serves as a source book for students, Research scholars and Teachers of Tourism Studies. This volume also highlights the love and affection of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy enjoys in the intellectual world. The felicitation Volume is brought out in a series of 12 independent books covering a total of 460 articles. Every volume contains two sections. The first section contains the biographical sketch of Prof.P.Chenna Reddy, his achievements and contribution to archaeology, history and Society. The second section of each volume is subject specific, E.g., Volume-I on Archaeology, Volume II on Early and Medieval Indian History, Volume III on Modern Indian History, Volume IV on Epigraphy and Numismatics, Volume V on Art, Volume VI on Architecture, Volume VII on Religion and Philosophy, Volume VIII on Economy, Trade and Commerce, Volume IX on Literature, Volume X Tribalore and Folklore, Volume XI Contemporary India and Diaspora, Volume XII, Tourism .and contains as many as 460 articles and contributed by renowned scholars.
Book Synopsis Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art by : Modesta Di Paola
Download or read book Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art written by Modesta Di Paola and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics seeks to trace cosmopolitical aesthetics understood not only as the union of art, science, and the right to survive, but also as the prism through which artistic practices are developed around questions connected to transculturality, migration, nomadism, post-gender subjectivities, social and natural sustainability, and new digital technologies. This book’s authors fashion a narrative that moves in the territory of “inbetweenness”, between hospitality and hostility, between welcoming and conflict, between languages and intermediate languages, science, and survival in a world that is “common” more than global.
Book Synopsis Belief, Bounty, and Beauty by : Albertina Nugteren
Download or read book Belief, Bounty, and Beauty written by Albertina Nugteren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values in the domain of sacred trees in India. By presenting samples from 3,000 years of Indian ritual practice, it is shown that in many sacred geographies trees continue to connect the present with the past, the material with the symbolic, and the contemporary ecological with the traditionally sacred. Although in India religion may have become very much a temple cult, its embeddedness in the natural world enhances today's 'green' interpretation of religious traditions. That in environmental matters such religious inspiration may be both successful and highly ambivalent at the same time is the thought-provoking position taken in the final chapters.
Book Synopsis Leopards and Leaders by : Malcolm Ruel
Download or read book Leopards and Leaders written by Malcolm Ruel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of politics and government among a West African people, the Banyang of the Upper Cross River, covers the end of the period of Colonial administration. The book: · Shows the inter-relationship between the structure of the small forest communities and the highly autonomous processes by which they were governed · Analyses the relationship between residence and common descent as principles of corporate grouping · Includes a case study of the political struggle involved in one community's claims to independence. Originally published in 1969.
Book Synopsis Signposts by : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Download or read book Signposts written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume map the concerns of gender onto the terrain of nation, finding significant connections, disjunctions, and tensions between them. The authors argue that for any cultural analysis to be performed in the context of the decolonized nation-space, gender must take centre stage.
Book Synopsis Kalyana Mitra: Volume 8 by : Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy
Download or read book Kalyana Mitra: Volume 8 written by Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VIII: Economy, Trade and Commerce: The Volume contains 31 articles contributed by scholars on Trade, Commerce and Economy. The articles include, Process of Urbanization, Buddhism and trade routes, Marine trade, epigraphical references to Trade, mercantile activities, commercial contacts with South Asian Countries, Trade and craft guilds, trade on Indian Ocean, role of ports in promoting trade and commerce, and Migrant trading Communities.The volume serves as a valuable source book for students, research scholars and teachers of trade, commerce and economy in historical context. This volume also highlights the love and affection of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy enjoys in the intellectual world. The felicitation Volume is brought out in a series of 12 independent books covering a total of 460 articles. Every volume contains two sections. The first section contains the biographical sketch of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy, his achievements and contribution to archaeology, history and Society. The second section of each volume is subject specific, E.g., Volume-I on Archaeology, Volume II on Early and Medieval Indian History, Volume III on Modern Indian History, Volume IV on Epigraphy and Numismatics, Volume V on Art, Volume VI on Architecture, Volume VII on Religion and Philosophy, Volume VIII on Economy, Trade and Commerce, Volume IX on Literature, Volume X Tribalore and Folklore, Volume XI Contemporary India and Diaspora, Volume XII, Tourism .and contains as many as 460 articles.
Book Synopsis Unmasking Culture by : Julia J. Thompson
Download or read book Unmasking Culture written by Julia J. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Top 10 Excuses for Avoiding Exercise and How to Overcome Them by : Reggie Lamptey
Download or read book Top 10 Excuses for Avoiding Exercise and How to Overcome Them written by Reggie Lamptey and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you think its your day, week, month, or even year to finally get started - something comes up to get in the way. If its not your job, its your family. If its not your family, its your job - or something else. Its a vicious cycle that never seems to end. Reggie truly understands what youre going through; even though, you may think youre all alone. Reggie has been where youre at, and he wants to show you ways to get going, no matter what your excuse or reason may be for being stalled. Top 10 Reasons to Avoid Exercise and How to Overcome Them, is designed to give you examples on how you can overcome your battles of the initial start. Top 10 Reasons connect by interviewing individuals from different walks of life, some just like you, and letting them tell their stories of triumph over the excuses. Reggie Lamptey, Exercise Awareness Motivator, is passionate, dedicated, and driven. After years of trying to find what he truly wanted to do, Reggie decided to turn his dream of helping people attain their goals into a reality. He founded Body Defining, LLC to help as many people as possible reach and live out their dreams for better health. Reggie inspires people to push themselves as hard as possible with his belief that no dream is unattainable.
