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Conversations with the Animate ‘Other’: Historical representations of Human and non-Human interactions in India - Hardcover

Aloka Parasher-Sen

 
9789356402638: Conversations with the Animate ‘Other’: Historical representations of Human and non-Human interactions in India
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9356402639 ISBN 13: 9789356402638
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India (UK), 2023

Synopsis

Human interventions with living entities have had to be in a constant state of negotiating space necessary for co-habitation with animals, birds, trees, plants, grasslands, forests, hills, water bodies in the creation of villages and other settlements. The book argues that negotiating this space meant sharing, which impacted economic strategies, religious experiences, cultural interactions and oral performances that humans have strategized and preserved. This intersectional theme, through individual case studies, ultimately provides us the civilizational ethos of the Indian sub-continent on how human non-human relations informed it.
The book provides a window on how this relationship was represented in a variety of material and literary texts, visual representations, archival records, folklore and oral testimonies. It brings to the fore these narratives over the longue durée to explicate the complex and delicate relationships in region specific ecological settings and thus give readers a perspective that crosses disciplinary and conceptual boundaries.

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About the Author

Aloka Parasher Sen is Professor Emerita, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, where she had earlier served in the Department of History (1979-2018).

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic India (UK)
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9356402639
ISBN 13 
9789356402638
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
320