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020			_a9781438480138
035			_a(OCoLC)1192499631
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aFlueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMaterial Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / _cJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.
264		1	_aAlbany : _bState University of New York Press, _c2020.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2023
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (206 pages): _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aSUNY series in Hindu studies
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Agency of ornaments : identity, protection, and auspiciousness -- Saris and turmeric : performativity of the material guise -- Material abundance and material excess : creating and serving two goddesses -- Expanding shrines, changing architecture : from protector to protected goddesses -- Standing in cement : Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains -- Afterword: Returning to material acts.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"Over the last few decades, there has been a renewed intellectual energy in religious studies around material culture; however, most of the attention has been focused on the ways humans use material objects and what specific materials reflect about humans. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger shifts the focus from human agents to material ones, which have an effect, or cause something to happen, that may be beyond what a human creator of the material intended. Analyzing materials from three regions where she has conducted extensive fieldwork, Flueckiger 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, in which Ravana is destroyed by the god Rama. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of specific religious practices in India as well as the parameters of religion more broadly"-- _cProvided by publisher
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aHinduism and culture. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00957166
650		7	_aMaterial culture _xReligious aspects _xHinduism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst02021254
650		6	_aCulture materielle _xAspect religieux _xHindouisme.
650		6	_aHindouisme et culture _zInde.
650		0	_aMaterial culture _xReligious aspects _xHinduism.
650		0	_aHinduism and culture _zIndia.
651		7	_aIndia. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210276
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/112253/
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