Material acts in everyday Hindu worlds

Material acts in everyday Hindu worlds / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Series:SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Subjects:
Hinduism and culture > India.
Material culture > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Material culture > Religious aspects > Hinduism
Hinduism and culture
India
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Agency of Ornaments: Identity, Protection, and and Auspiciousness
  • 2. Saris and Turmeric: Performativity of the Material Guise
  • 3. Material Abundance and Material Excess: Creating and Inviting Two Goddesses La
  • 4. Expanding Goddess Shrines, Changing Goddess Identities
  • 5. Standing in Cement: Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains
  • Afterword: Returning to Material Acts
  • Glossary of Key Terms
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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