Territory, soil and society in South Asia.
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New Delhi :
Manohar,
2009.
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Table des matières:
- Par I: Emergence if divine territories in Brahmanical Texts
- Land and location: errant Gods, erring asuras and the land of men: place and space in Vedic literature / Angot, Michel
- Images and territory of Gods: from precepts to epigraphs / Colas, Gérard .
- Part II: Land, soil, and sense of belonging
- The place of ritual: geographical boundaries and sectarian identity in medieval Indian religions / Granoff, Phyllis
- The smell of soil: geomantic practices among Banaras astrologers / Guenzi, Caterina ; Osella, Filippo.
- Part III: Religious and political territories
- Territory, death and local deities in Newar villages of the Kathmandu valley / Toffin, Gérard
- The Annamanada case: a hundred years of conflict over rights and territories in Kerala / Tarabout, Gilles
- Divine jurisdictions and forms of government in Himachal Pradesh / Berti, Daniela
- Mapping the nation's body: territorial processions in propaganda videos of the Hindu right / Brosius, Christiane.