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1 online resource (493 pages) : portrait |
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Cultural, historical and textual studies of religions |
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Cultural, historical and textual studies of religions.
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| Contents |
Section 1. The Indian tradition and its representation. Language and race in colonial representations of Indian society and culture / Partha Mitter ; When the Paramparā breaks : on gurus and students in the Mahābhārata / John Nemec ; The living an dthe dead : ideology and social dynamicss of ancestral commemoration in India / Patrick Olivelle ; On singularity : what Sanskrit poeticians believe to be real / David Schulman -- Section 2. Caste, kinship, land and community. Recasting a caste : the case of the Dadhich Brahmans / Lawrence A. Babb ; Reconstituting village communities : Sir William Gregory's efforts to renovate village agriculture in Ceylon's North Central Province / James Brow ; Dowry in Batticaloa : the historical transformation of a matrilineal property system / Dennis B. McGilvray -- Section 3. Renunciation and power. The morality of refusal / Arjun Appadurai ; Revolt in the temple : politics of a temple paintings project in Sri Lanka / H.L. Seneviratne ; Pain and power : reflections on ascetic agency / Peter van der Veer -- Section 4. Buddhist revival and the 'work of culture' in Sri Lanka, past and present / Anne M. Blackburn ; Dharmapala's Buddhisms / Steven Kemper ; Religion and globalization from the historical perspective of Thai Buddhism / Donald K. Swearer -- Section 5. The enigma of the text. The mythology of the Kāmasūtra / Wendy Doniger ; Mandārampura Puvata : an apocryphal Buddhist chronicle / Kitsiri Malalgoda ; Variants as historical statements : the Rāma-kathā in early India / Romila Thapar -- Section 7. The anthropologist and the native. Plain tales from the field : reflections on fieldwork in three cultures / Arjun Guneratne ; The (re)turn of the native : ethnography, anthropology, and nativisim / Abdelmajid Hannoum ; The romance of the field? / R. Stirrat, Dinah Rajak ; Human rights and 'practical rationality' among Sri Lankan Tamils and Americans / Mark Whitaker |
| Summary |
This book is a collection of 20 essays by international scholars collated in honor of Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, whose writings have contributed to the fields of South Asian studies and anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Obeyesekere, Gananath.
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| SUBJECT |
Obeyesekere, Gananath fast |
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064872
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Seneviratne, H. L., 1934-
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Obeyesekere, Gananath
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| ISBN |
0857289918 |
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9780857289919 |
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