Bilingual Discourse And Cross Cultural Fertilisation Sanskrit And Tamil In Medieval India
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Bilingual discourse and cross cultural fertilisation Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India
Author | : Collectif |
Publsiher | : Institut français de Pondichéry |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9791036544330 |
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This collection of essays aims to trace the exchanges, responses, affinities and fissures between the worlds of Sanskrit and Tamil literary cultures in the medieval period. The literati who produced the works in these languages moved freely between domains that earlier Indological scholarship has tended to compartmentalise. The eleven studies presented in this volume strive to move beyond this narrow perspective and thus do justice to the richness and complexity of the cultural synthesis that took shape in South India in this period. By looking at the articulation of identities, practices, and discourses in texts of a range of genres composed in Tamil and Sanskrit (as well as Prakrit and Malayalam), these essays supply a picture of South India in the medieval period that is unique in its historical depth and conceptual complexity and demonstrate innovative ways to investigate and problematise cross-cultural phenomena, while suggesting how much work yet remains to be done.
Bilingual Discourse and Cross cultural Fertilisation
Author | : Whitney Cox,Vincenzo Vergiani |
Publsiher | : Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : 2855391296 |
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Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
Author | : Peter C. Bisschop,Elizabeth A. Cecil |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110674262 |
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This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the “Classical Age” or the “Gupta Period”. This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.
Tamil
Author | : David Shulman |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674974654 |
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Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history.
Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts
Author | : Szilvia Sövegjártó,Márton Vér |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2024-05-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111381053 |
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This book explores multilingualism and multiscriptism in a great variety of writing cultures, offering an in-depth analysis of how diverse languages and scripts seamlessly intertwine within written artefacts. Insights into scribal practices are particularly illuminating in that respect, especially when exploring artefacts originating from multicultural communities and regions where distinct writing traditions intersect. The influence of multilingualism and multiscriptism on these writing cultures becomes evident, with essays spanning various domains, from the mundane aspects of everyday life to the realms of scholarship and political propaganda. Scholars often relegate these phenomena, despite being frequently encountered, to the status of exceptions compared to the more prevalent monolingualism and monoscriptism. However, in daring to challenge this viewpoint, this book emphasises the profound significance and relevance of multilingualism and multiscriptism in shaping the development of languages, cultures, and societies across Asia, Africa, and Europe. It caters to a diverse readership keen on delving into the intricacies of these phenomena within this rich tapestry of writing cultures.
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Author | : Himanshu Prabha Ray |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000227932 |
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This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists, numismatists and historians, the essays in this volume • Provide insights into the ways people in the past, and in the present, imbue places with meanings; • Examine the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia; • Trace complex patterns of historical development of a temple or a town, to understand ways in which such spaces often become a means of constructing the collective past and social traditions. With a new chapter on continuity and change in the sacred landscape of the Buddhist site at Udayagiri, the second edition of Negotiating Cultural Identity will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of archaeology, social history, cultural studies, art history and anthropology.
The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples
Author | : Himanshu Prabha Ray,Salila Kulshreshtha,Uthara Suvrathan |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781000785814 |
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This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces. They are significant sites for the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and in the present. Drawing on historiographical surveys and in-depth case studies, the volume centres the material form of the Hindu temple as an entry point to study its many adaptations and transformations from the early centuries CE to the 20th century. It highlights the vibrancy and dynamism of the shrine in different locales and studies the active participation of the community for its establishment, maintenance and survival. The illustrated handbook takes a unique approach by focusing on the social base of the temple rather than its aesthetics or chronological linear development. It fills a significant gap in the study of Hinduism and will be an indispensable resource for scholars of archaeology, Hinduism, Indian history, religious studies, museum studies, South Asian history and Southeast Asian history. Chapters 1, 4 and 5 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Manuscripts and Archives
Author | : Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110541571 |
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Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).