Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
by Arjun Appadurai
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Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and social history to construct a model of show more institutional change in South Asia under colonial rule. Focusing on the problem of authority as a cultural concept and as a managerial reality, Professor Appadurai considers some classic problems of South Asian anthropology: problems of deference, sumptuary symbolism, and religious organization. In addition, he addresses such issues as the nature of conflict under a hybrid colonial legal system, the political implications of sumptuary disputes, and the structure of relations between polity and religion in pre-modern South Asia. These aspects of the study should interest a broad range of scholars. show lessMembers
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Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and' a senior fellow of the Institute for Public Knowledge. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Social Life of Things and The Future as Cultural Fact.
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Anthropology
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- 294.5 — Religion Other religions Dharmic religions Hinduism
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- BL2003 .A66 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism History and principles of religions Asian. Oriental By region or country India
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