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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds

Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

Hardcover

Series: Suny Hindu Studies

Comparative ReligionMythology & FolkloreHinduism

ISBN10: 1438480113
ISBN13: 9781438480114
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 1 2020
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.

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.

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