Tarabout Gilles Berti Daniela (9 results)

Condition: New. pp. 380 Illus., Maps.

Condition: New. pp. 380, Maps.

Condition: New. pp. 380.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788173047824.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents List of contributors. Introduction/Daniela Berti and Gilles Tarabout. I. Emergence of Divine Territories in Brahmanical Texts 1. Land and location Errant Gods erring Asuras and the land of men Place and space in Vedic Literature/Michel Angot. 2. Images and territory of Gods from precepts to epigraphs/Gerard Colas. II. Land Soil and Sense of Belonging 3. The place of ritual geographical boundaries and Sectarian identity in medieval Indian religions/Phyllis Granoff. 4. The smell of soil geomantic practices among Banaras astrologers/Caterina Guenzi and Sunita Singh. 5. Vital exchanges land and persons in Kerala/Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella. III. Religious and Political Territories 6. Territory death and local deities in Newar Villages of the Kathmandu Valley/Gerard Toffin. 7. The Annamanada case a hundred years of conflict over rights and territories in Kerala/Gilles Tarabout. 8. Divine jurisdictions and forms of Government in Himachal Pradesh/Daniela Berti. 9. Mapping the Nation's Body territorial processions in propaganda videos of the Hindu right/Christiane Brosius. This volume tackles a widespread stereotype in academic studies according to which pre colonial India consisted of territorial units with ill defined fuzzy boundaries and where territory had and still has little value as a cognitive category. In aiming to reconsider this perspective the book follows two converging lines of enquiry. One explores the conceptions that stress the mutual determination of places and people and the entrenchment of their identity in the soil. The other analyses historically and anthropologically the changing nature of the notion of territory understood in its proper sense of a jurisdiction an area where rights and power are exercised. The investigation starts from the devaluation of religious territory in Vedic ritual texts checks later developments of divine territories in relation to temples details various types of traditional jurisdictions and ends up with an analysis of recent ethnicization of the Nation as shown in Hindutva produced videos. The book combines a diversity of sources (ethnographical archival textual and inscriptions) used by an international team of authors trained in different disciplines (Indology history of religion social anthropology). These approaches provide contrasting pictures of the plural conceptions and symbolic manipulations of territory in the Indian world from early times to the present day. The studies invite a comparison with other societies based on the recognition of the historicity and plurality of territorial organizations that are at the core of human relationships. 380 pp.…

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