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Thinking about notions of time in India still evokes images of circles and wheels symbolising the fading away of collective and individual histories into the repetitious, cyclical movement of cosmic death and rebirth. However, time is perceived and reckoned in India in many different ways mirrored in a wide spectrum of philosophical and theological interpretations, methods of calculation, mythological narratives and ritual performances. The richness of concepts and practices shows the concern for different dimensions of the experience of time in Indian cultures. The interplay between time as quality and quantity persists in many aspects of social life in India and has not been replaced by the advent of modern standardisations. Thus, ritual calendars and the concern for auspicious or inauspicious moments co-exist with other methods of time reckoning. Such as the digital clock or dynastic eras. The essays collected in this volume highlight this multiplicity by studying both notions and practices of time in relation to the different contexts in which they are enacted. Scholars from different disciplines address these topics with regard to history, religion, methods of time-reckoning, festivals, life-cycle rituals kinship and modern historiography. The essays deal with both, pan-Indian notions and traditions located in Orissa. While there are some distinct features that relate to Orissa in particular, the regional and local traditions often draw on conceptual frameworks used in other parts of the subcontinent too.
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Angelika Malinar is Lecturer in Hinduism at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interest are Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. Hindu monasticism, Yoga and Samkhya. She is the author of Rajavidya: Das Konigliche Wissen un Herrschaft and Verzicht, Studien zur Bhagavadgita (1996) and co-editor of Charisma and Canon: Essays in the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent (2001).
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction/Angelika Malinar. I. Irreversibility and repetition: Historical constructions and religious discourse: 1. Time concepts, social identities and historical consciousness in early India/Romila Thapar. 2. The King's own time: The Anka system of Orissa/George Berkemer. 3. Interconnecting parallel times: notions of time in the Caitanya tradition/Angelika Malinar. 4. Babas and Alekhs: notes on concepts of time and social change in a contemporary ascetic doctrine/Lidia Guzy. II. Ritual time and life-cycle: Collective representations, individual needs: 5. Rhythms of life: ritual time and historical time/Frederique Apffel-Marglin. 6. Time for ritual: the Panjis of Puri and Jajpur/Heinrich von Stietencron. 7. Cosmic time and is influence on Rona girls and women/Tina Otten.8. Children sold and thrown away: Temporary identifications in a converging tribal and caste society/Uwe Skoda. 9. Memory, performance and the regeneration of society among the Koya/Ulrich Demmer. III. Coping with modern historiography: time and the problem of identity: 10. Manikesvari and Dokri: changing representations of two tribal Goddesses and the dynastic histories of Orissa/Cornelia Mallebrein. 11. Casting a glorious past: loss and retrieval of the Ol Chiki script/Barbara Lotz. 12. Changing one's own identity: the role of language in the transformation of a subregional tradition/G.N. Dash. 13. Imagined chronologies: perceptions of 'development' as a tool in mapping Oriya identity/Jayanta Sengupta. Index. "Thinking about notions of time in India still evokes images of circles and wheels symbolizing the fading away of collective and individual histories into the repetitious, cyclical movement of cosmic death and rebirth. However, time is perceived and reckoned in India in many different ways mirrored in a wide spectrum of philosophical and theological interpretations, methods of calculation, mythological narratives and ritual performances. The richness of concepts and practices shows the concern for different dimensions of the experience of time in Indian cultures. The interplay between time as quality and quantity persists in many aspects of social life in India and has not been replaced by the advent of modern standardisations. Thus, ritual calendars and the concerns for auspicious or inauspicious moments co-exist with other methods of time reckoning, such as the digital clock or dynastic eras. The essays collected in this volume highlight this multiplicity by studying both notions and practices of time in relation to the different contexts in which they are enacted. Scholars from different disciplines address these topics with regard to history, religion, methods of time-reckoning, festivals, life-cycle rituals, kinship and modern historiography. The essays deal with both, pan-Indian notions and traditions located in Orissa. While there are some distinct features that relate Orissa in particular, the regional and local traditions often draw on conceptual frameworks used in other parts of the subcontinent too." (jacket). Seller Inventory # 64075
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