The hegemony of heritage : ritual and the record in stone /

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Author / Creator:Stein, Deborah L., 1975- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:South Asia across the disciplines
South Asia across the disciplines.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11736385
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ISBN:9780520968882
0520968883
0520296338
9780520296336
9780520296336
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how architectural objects and societies' relationship to the built environment change over time. Using the pairing of two living medieval monuments in Southern Rajasthan--the Ambika Temple in Jagat, Rajasthan, and the Ékalingji Temple Complex in Kailaspuri--the author underscores many aspects of practice and avoids focusing simply on their divergent sectarian affiliations or patronage structures. This book offers new and extremely valuable questions about these important monuments, such as the entangled politics of antiquity and whether a monument's ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary, or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies. The Hegemony of Heritage engages theoretical constructs with the richness of ethnographic description and asks us to rethink notions such as archive and text through the filter of sculpture and mantra."--Provided by publisher
Other form:Print version: Stein, Deborah L., 1975- Hegemony of heritage. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520296336