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The Materiality of the Past - History and Representation in Sikh Tradition (Hardcover)
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The Materiality of the Past - History and Representation in Sikh Tradition (Hardcover)
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Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material
aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as
holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as
an evolving historical and social construction. Widening
traditional scholarly emphasis on holy sites and texts alone to
include consideration of iconic objects, such as garments and
weaponry, Murphy moves further and examines the parallel
relationships among sites, texts, and objects. She reveals that
objects have played dramatically different roles across
regimes-signifers of authority in one, mere possessions in
another-and like Sikh texts, which have long been a resource for
the construction of Sikh identity, material objects have served as
a means of imagining and representing the past. Murphy's deft and
nuanced study of the complex role objects have played and continue
to play in Sikh history and memory will be a valuable resource to
students and scholars of Sikh history and culture.
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