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Tamil Geographies: Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India

Tamil Geographies: Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India

Selby, Martha Ann
Peterson, Indira Viswanathan

Hardcover

Series: Suny Hindu Studies

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791472450
ISBN13: 9780791472453
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 22 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.32 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.

This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions of land and space and how these descriptions build and inform diverse social and aesthetic realities. The essays examine texts drawn from a range of time periods and a variety of sources in Tamil culture, including imaginative literature, historical events and narratives, religious rituals, and daily life in contemporary Tamil Nadu. The book clearly demonstrates the ways in which early Tamil aesthetic and linguistic paradigms have survived to the present as living, vital expressions through which contemporary boundaries and social identities are shaped and constructed.

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