The anthropologist and the native : essays for Gananath Obeyesekere

493 p. ;

• Informazioni

  ISBN: 9788860321152

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/9788860321152

  COLLANA

  Alti studi di storia delle religioni,
  

  MATERIE

  • Cultura e istituzioni
  • Storia dell'Asia meridionale
  • Lingue indoeuropee orientali e celtiche
  • Religioni di origine indiana
  • Storia, geografia, persone delle belle arti e arti decorative
  • Letterature indoeuropee orientali e celtiche
  • Asia (History)

  SOGGETTI

  • India -- Civilization
• In questo volume

  • Editor's Note
  • Language and Race in Colonial Representations of Indian Society and Culture
  • When the Parampara Breaks
  • The Living and the Dead Ideology and Social Dynamics of Ancestral Commemoration in India
  • On Singularity
  • Recasting a Caste
  • Reconstituting Village Communities
  • Dowry in Batticaloa
  • The Morality of Refusal
  • Revolt in the Temple
  • Pain and Power
  • Buddhist Revival and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka, Past and Present
  • Dharmapala's Buddhisms
  • Religion and Globalization from the Historical Pespective of Thai Buddhism
  • The Mythology of the Kamasutra
  • Mandarampura Puvata
  • Variants As Historical Statements
  • Plain Tales from the Field
  • The (Re)Turn of the Native
  • The Romance of the Field?
  • Human Rights and Practical Rationality among Sri Lankan Tamils and Americans
  • List of Contributors