ISBN:
9781032069852
,
9780367712006
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 232 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
DDC:
304.20954
Keywords:
Anthropologie
;
Anthropology
;
Asian history
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein
;
HISTORY / General
;
Regional geography
;
Regional studies
;
Regionale Geographie
;
Regionalstudien / Internationale Studien
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
;
Social & cultural history
;
Society & culture: general
;
Sociology
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Soziologie
;
Asia
;
Indien
;
Historische Geografie
;
Heiligtum
;
Mythologie
Abstract:
This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically and culturally diverse context of India
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface 1. Introduction: New Myths and Myths Anew 2. KÄÅÄ" as Space and Notion: Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina Myths 3. Ecology, Mythic Imagination and Ká1á1£á1a Worship in Early MathurÄ 4. The Patriarch King: Myths from a Jewish Homeland in Kodungallur 5. The Rise and Fall of Two Cities: ValabhÄ" and DhÄrÄ as Narrated in the PrabandhacintÄmaá1i 6. Peregrination as Pedagogy: ÅankarÄcÄrya s Digvijayas and the Idea of India 7. Goddesses and Abodes: Myths, Memories and the Divine of the Nilachala Hills 8. The Mountain Numen: Myth and Everyday Life in Kangra and Hamirpur 9. Vernacular Shrines and Mythical Narratives: A Case Study of Champaran 10. Myth as Palimpsest: Performance and Provenance of the Tamil Åilappadikaram 11. Itinerant Identities in the Thar: Myths in Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo
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