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Power, Presence and Space: South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context

Power, Presence and Space: South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context

Albery, Henry
Hartmann, Jens-Uwe
Ray, Himanshu Prabha

Hardcover

Series: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia

Ancient History GeneralHinduismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0367133962
ISBN13: 9780367133962
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Jul 27 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Patterns of ritual power, presence, and space are fundamentally connected to, and mirror, the societal and political power structures in which they are enacted.

This book explores these connections in South Asia from the early Common Era until the present day. The essays in the volume examine a wide range of themes, including a genealogy of ideas concerning Vedic rituals in European thought; Buddhist donative rituals of Gandhara and Andhra Pradesh in the early Common Era; land endowments, festivals, and temple establishments in medieval Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; Mughal court rituals of the Mughal Empire; and contemporary ritual complexes on the Nilgiri Plateau. This volume argues for the need to redress a historical neglect in identifying and theorising ritual and religion in material contexts within archaeology. Further, it challenges existing theoretical and methodological forms of documentation to propose new ways of understanding rituals in history.

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