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Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History de Himanshu Prabha Ray

Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia

Editat de Himanshu Prabha Ray
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2017
This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals with the perception, use and representation of the landscape as an essential dimension of life in the early medieval period.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780815373124
ISBN-10: 0815373120
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Seria Archaeology and Religion in South Asia

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Himanshu Prabha Ray Part I: The Archaeology of Space 1. India Cartographica: Some Roman Sightings 2. Cartography and Cultural Encounter: Conceptualisation of al-Hind by Arabic and Persian Writers from the 9th to 11th Centuries CE 3. Self, Other and the Use and Appropriation of Late Roman Coins in Peninsular India (4th to 7th centuries CE) Part II: Defining Cultural Landscapes 4. Sacred Spaces of the Middle Ganga Valley: A Case Study of Varanasi 5. Transforming the Landscape: Questions of Medieval Reuse and Worship at Ancient Jain Rock-cut Sites near Madurai 6. Of Saffron, Snow and Spirituality: Glimpses of Cultural Geography in the Rajatarangini 7. Space for Change: Evaluating the ‘Paucity of Metallic Currency’ in Medieval India 8. Colonial Imagination and Identity Attribution: Numismatic Cues for Defining Space 9. Shrines as ‘Monuments’: Issues of Classification, Custody and Conflict in Orissa

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This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals with the perception, use and representation of the landscape as an essential dimension of life in the early medieval period.

Notă biografică

Himanshu Prabha Ray is Honorary Professor of the Distant Worlds Programme, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She is former Chairperson, National Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture in New Delhi, India, and former Professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Her research interests include Maritime History and Archaeology of the Indian Ocean, the History of Archaeology in South and Southeast Asia and the Archaeology of Religion in Asia. Her recent books include Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia; edited volume, Decolonising Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Transnational; Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections; Susan Verma Mishra and Himanshu Prabha Ray, The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: The Temple in Western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE; The Return of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation; and The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia.