Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of South Asian Religions – serie
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Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond
Av Tiziana Pontillo, Maria Piera Candotti
Inbunden, 2013
1190 kr
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The collected essays in this book are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy; this work charts the evolution of key concepts on signless signification of traditional Indian grammar and deals with powerful mechanisms of meaning extension, including rituals …
Fortified Cities of Ancient India
A Comparative Study
Inbunden, 2013
1190 kr
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Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India. Based on in-depth textual and archeological research, Professor Dieter Schlingloff’s work presents for the first …
Mahanubhavs
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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The ascetic devotional sect known as the Mahanubhavs – ‘Those of the Great Experience’ – arose in thirteenth-century Maharashtra and initially experienced a fairly rapid expansion across the northern and eastern areas of the region. However, by the end of the fourteenth century the sect had moved …
Language, Texts, and Society
Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion
Inbunden, 2011
1131 kr
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This collection brings together a series of Patrick Olivelle’s research papers, published over a period of about ten years, whose unifying theme is the search for hidden historical context and developments within words and texts. Words (and cultural histories represented by words) that scholars …
Ascetics and Brahmins
Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
Inbunden, 2011
1131 kr
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This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian …
Anthropologist and the Native
Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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‘The Anthropologist and the Native’ is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere. The essays are arranged in six sections covering a range of topics that reflect Obeyesekere’s wide …
Tradition, Veda and Law
Studies on South Asian Classical Intellectual Traditions
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them. Such a sequence is meant to develop a renovated and …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Häftad, 2013
422 kr
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This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the …
Philology and Criticism
A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism
Av Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
Inbunden, 2018
1970 kr
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Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vishwa …
