Vijaya Nagarajan

Feeding a Thousand Souls

Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam

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Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and alertness, and Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth. Created by hand with great skill, artistry, and mathematical precision, the kolam disappears in a few hours, borne away by passing footsteps and hungry insects.This is the first comprehensive study of the kolam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-085808-7
EAN: 9780190858087
Produktnummer: 29341358
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 139'184 KB
Abbildungen: 107

Über den Autor

Vijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco.