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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| Superior document: | SUNY series in Hindu studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Albany, New York State : : State University of New York Press,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.