Simmons Singing the Goddess into Place

Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8867-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Hindu Studies

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simmons, Caleb

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Note on Transliteration

1. Introduction: Singing Place and Situating Deities in the Kannada Folksong Chamundi of the Hill

2. "She killed the buffalo demon and dwells on the middle of the hill": Myth, Locality, and Cosmological Significance

3. "You're the one who protects this place": Folk Perspectives on Urban History and Regional Significance

4. "He is from one caste; we are from another": Religion, Caste, and Social Change

5. "I live on the top of the hill. you remain near its base": "High" and "Low" in the Goddess Traditions of Southern Karnataka

6. Chamundi of the Hill Translation

Appendix: "Wodeyar Origin Narrative" from Great Kings of Mysore

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caleb Simmons is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty Director of the Bachelor of General Studies Program in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India and coeditor (with Moumita Sen and Hillary Rodrigues) of Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press.