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Head and Heart: Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India de Mary Storm

Head and Heart: Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India

Autor Mary Storm
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2013
An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415812467
ISBN-10: 0415812461
Pagini: 430
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, colour plates
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.96 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

List of Plates. Glossary. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Images of Sacrifice 2. Human Sacrifice from Myth to Reality: the Integration of Tantra 3. Distinguishing Suicide and Self-Sacrifice 4. Symbols of the Body Offering 5. The Gods who Receive Sacrifice 6. The Heroes who Self-Sacrifice 7. The Historic Setting for Self-Immolation 8. Remembrance and Memorial 9. Motivations for Abandonment of the Body: Political and Military 10. Motivations for Abandonment of the Body: Health and Society 11. Chinnamastā: Divine Reciprocity. Conclusion. Appendix. Bibliography. About the Author. Index

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An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.