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dc.contributor.authorFlueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T16:52:30Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T16:52:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/8716
dc.description.abstractIn Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted extensive fieldwork, she begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts to the presence of cement images of Ravana in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of material agency as well as the parameters of religion more broadly.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSUNY Pressen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Material-Acts-in-Everyday-Hindu-Worldsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectHindu Studiesen_US
dc.subjectIndia and South Asian Studiesen_US
dc.subjectComparative Religionen_US
dc.subjectAnthropologyen_US
dc.titleMaterial Acts in Everyday Hindu Worldsen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.description.versionAMen_US
refterms.dateFOA2023-05-17T16:52:31Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Pressen_US
dc.description.degreelevelN/Aen_US


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