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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Vijaya Nagarajan (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of San Francisco)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780190858070ISBN 10: 0190858079 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 10 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Note on Diacritics and Transliterations List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1- Beginnings Chapter 2- Following Lines of Beauty Chapter 3- Rituals Chapter 4- Thresholds Chapter 5- Antal Chapter 6- Designs Chapter 7- Embodied Mathematics Chapter 8- Competitions: From Village to City Chapter 9- Embedded Ecologies and the Earth Goddess Chapter 10- Marrying Trees and Global Warming Chapter 11- Feeding a Thousand Souls: A Ritual of Generosity Chapter 12- EndingsReviewsThe kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice. --Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls. --Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Author InformationVijaya 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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