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Power, Presence and Space - South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context (Hardcover)
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Power, Presence and Space - South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context (Hardcover)
Series: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia
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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. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of South Asian history, religion, archaeology, and
historical geography.
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