Author: Martha A. Strawn
Publisher: Center for Amer Places Incorporated
ISBN: 9781930066250
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In the Hindu worldview, a door’s threshold is profoundly important as a symbol of the boundary between the physical and spiritual realms. Intricate diagrams of rice flour and chalk are painted by Hindu women on the thresholds of buildings as sanctification tools that trap negative energy within their complex geometric configurations and cleanse those who pass over them with positive energy. Martha A. Strawn was immediately captivated by these diagrams during her first visit to India, and they inspired her to explore the power of these images inAcross the Threshold of India. Drawing upon interviews with Hindu women, as well as international scholars and her own personal experiences, Strawn examines this lesser-known aspect of Hinduism through photographs and reflective writings. Utilizing her pioneering analytical method of visual ecology, Strawn explores how Hindu women, through their creation of the threshold images, carve out a unique artistic and cultural niche within the strictures governing their lives. Offering new insights into Hindu art and religion,Across the Threshold of Indiailluminates how culture and religion shape each other’s influence in the creation and maintenance of a society. “Martha A. Strawn welcomes us across the threshold into a world of remarkable and little-known women’s art. Conveying the depths of her own experience and the energy of place, she is the perfect guide to these intricate cosmograms that straddle everyday life and ancient ritual.”—Lucy R. Lippard, author ofOn the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place
Author: Martha Strawn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938086175
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An important and strikingly beautiful new study of the sacred and ancient Hindu practice of threshold drawing (Casebound set of two hardcover volumes)
Author: H. Clay Trumbull
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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The Threshold Covenant shows the beginning of religious rites, by which man evidenced a belief, however obtained, in the possibility of covenant relations between God and man; and the gradual development of those rites, with the progress toward a higher degree of civilization and enlightenment.
Author: Henry Clay Trumbull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covenants
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093539X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Even childbirth is affected by globalization—and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, this book conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil Nadu in their own voices, emphasizing their critiques of and aspirations for modern births today. In light of these stories, author Cecilia Van Hollen explores larger questions about how the structures of colonialism and postcolonial international and national development have helped to shape the form and meaning of birth for Indian women today. Ultimately, her book poses the question: How is gender—especially maternity—reconfigured as birth is transformed?
Author: Henry Clay Trumbull
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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This classic includes the following chapters: I. Primitive Family Altar 1. A Blood Welcome at the Door 2. Reverence for the Threshold Altar 3. Threshold Covenanting in the Marriage Ceremony 4. Stepping or Being Lifted Across the Threshold 5. Laying Foundations in Blood 6. Appeals at the Altar 7. Covenant Tokens on the Doorway 8. Symbol of the Red Hand 9. Deities of the Doorway II. Earliest Temple Altar 1. From House to Temple 2. Sacredness of the Door 3. Temple Thresholds in Asia 4. Temple Thresholds in Africa 5. Temple Thresholds in Europe 6. Temple Thresholds in America 7. Temple Thresholds in Islands of the Sea 8. Only One Foundation III. Sacred Boundary Line 1. From Temple to Domain 2. Local Landmarks 3. National Borders 4. Border Sacrifices IV. Origin of the Rite 1. A Natural Question 2. An Answer by Induction 3. No Covenant Without Blood 4. Confirmation of This View V. Hebrew Pass-Over, or Cross-Over, Sacrifice 1. New Meaning in an Old Rite 2. A Welcome With Blood 3. Bason, or Threshold 4. Pass-Over or Pass-By 5. Marriage of Jehovah With Israel VI. Christian Passover 1. Old Covenant and New 2. Proffered Welcome by the Father 3. Bridegroom and Bride 4. Survivals of the Rite VII. Outgrowths and Perversions of This Rite 1. Elemental Beginnings 2. Main Outgrowths 3. Chief Perversions
Author: Peter R. Lavoy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482823
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a landmark event not because of its duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil conflict, academic and policy debates over nuclear deterrence and proliferation occurred largely on the theoretical level. This deep analysis of the conflict offers scholars and policymakers a rare account of how nuclear-armed states interact during military crisis. Written by analysts from India, Pakistan, and the United States, this unique book draws extensively on primary sources, including unprecedented access to Indian, Pakistani, and U.S. government officials and military officers who were actively involved in the conflict. This is the first rigorous and objective account of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Kargil conflict.
Author: Karan Singh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000769720
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki, tamasha, all with conventions like open performative space, free mingling of spectators and actors, flexibility in roles and genres, etc. It discusses the genesis, history and the independent trajectory of folk theatres; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them. It shows how these theatres effectively contest delimitation of human creative impulses (as revealed in classical Sanskrit theatre) from structuring as also of normative impulses of religion and culture, while amalgamating influences from Western theatre, newly-rising religious reform movements of 19th century India, tantra and Bhakti. It further highlights their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in accordance with spatial and temporal transformations to constitute an important anthropological layer of Indian society. Comprehensive and empirically rich, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre, film and performance studies, sociology, political studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.
Author: Dominique-Sila Kahn
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Who is Hindu, who is Muslim? The answer, according to Dominique-Sila Khan, is not as simple as generally assumed. By analyzing documentary sources as well as original field data, she examines the shaping of religious identities in South Asia, particularly in North India. The author argues that the perception of Islam and Hinduism as two monolithic and perpetually antagonistic faiths coexisting uneasily in South Asia has become so deeply ingrained that the complexity of the historical fabric is often overlooked or ignored. She demonstrates how the emergence of clear-cut categories is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and shows how the past is characterized by a remarkable fluidity and diversity in the social and religious milieus of the two faiths. In exploring the historical mechanisms that have led to the emergence and crystallization of religious identities the author sheds light on the increasing number of conflicts which threaten the harmonious co-existence of South Asian communities today.
Author: Atul Kohli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135122741
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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India’s growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world’s largest democracy functions. The Handbook is structured around four main topics: political change, political economy, the diversity of regional development, and the changing role of India in the world. Chapters examine how and why democracy in India put down firm roots, but also why the quality of governance offered by India’s democracy continues to be low. The acceleration of economic growth since the mid-1980s is discussed, and the Handbook goes on to look at the political and economic changes in selected states, and how progress across Indian states continues to be uneven. It concludes by touching on the issue of India’s international relations, both in South Asia and the wider world. The Handbook offers an invigorating initiation into the seemingly daunting and complex terrain of Indian politics. It is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, policy analysts, graduate and undergraduate students studying Indian politics.
