Power, Presence and Space

South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-53953-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia

Patterns of ritual power, presence, and space are fundamentally connected to, and mirror, the societal and political power structures in which they are enacted.

This book explores these connections in South Asia from the early Common Era until the present day. The essays in the volume examine a wide range of themes, including a genealogy of ideas concerning Vedic rituals in European thought; Buddhist donative rituals of Gandhara and Andhra Pradesh in the early Common Era; land endowments, festivals, and temple establishments in medieval Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; Mughal court rituals of the Mughal Empire; and contemporary ritual complexes on the Nilgiri Plateau. This volume argues for the need to redress a historical neglect in identifying and theorising ritual and religion in material contexts within archaeology. Further, it challenges existing theoretical and methodological forms of documentation to propose new ways of understanding rituals in history.

This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, religion, archaeology, and historical geography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albery, Henry

Hartmann, Jens-Uwe

Ray, Himanshu Prabha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Buddhismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Archaeology of Ritual in South Asian Contexts Part I: Power 1. Imagining Sacrifice in Ancient India: A Genealogy of Heesterman’s ‘Broken World’ 2. Rituals of Power: Coinage, Court Culture and Kingship under the Great Mughals 3. Ritual as Performed Constitutions—Badagas in the Nilgiris District Part II: Presence 4. Codified Relic Theft and Buddhist Propaganda: (Re)-Dedicating the Buddha’s Relics in the Indic Northwest 5. Naming Rituals and Sharing Power in the Time and Space of the Tamil Temple 6. Power, Processions and the Festival Architecture of the Tamil temple Part III: Space 7. Money for Rituals: Aksayanivi and Related Inscriptions from Andhradesa 8 Neither Cave nor Temple: Expressions of Power and Divinity in the Rock-Reliefs at Badami 9. Ritualising Land and Cultivating Distinctions: Medieval Period Donative Practices, and a Political Ecology of the Raichur Doab 10. Sacred Frames: Knowledge, Culture and Ritual Agency in Ancient Talukas of Karnataka (Late 10th–12th centuries)