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Tamil geographies :

(Number (ISBN

0791479455

(Number (ISBN

1435653297

(Number (ISBN

9780791479452

(Number (ISBN

9781435653290

Erroneous ISBN

0791472450

Erroneous ISBN

0791472469

Erroneous ISBN

9780791472453

Erroneous ISBN

9780791472460

Number

b781134

Title Proper

Tamil geographies :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

cultural constructions of space and place in South India /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Martha Ann Selby, Indira Viswanathan Peterson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 326 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map

Series Title

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Dialogues of space, desire, and gender in Tamil caṅkam poetry / Martha Ann Selby -- Four spatial realms in Tirukkōvaiyār / Norman J. Cutler -- The drama of the Kur̲avañci fortune-teller : land, landscape, and social relations in an eighteenth-century Tamil genre / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Ruling in the gaze of God : thoughts on Kanchipuram's maṇḍala / D. Dennis Hudson -- Cosmos, realm, and property in early medieval South India / Daud Ali -- Sanctum and gopuram at Madurai : aesthetics of akam and pur̲am in Tamil temple architecture / Samuel K. Parker -- From wasteland to bus stand : the relocation of demons in Tamilnadu / Isabelle Clark-Decès -- Waiting for Veḷḷāḷakaṇṭan̲ : narrative, movement, and making place in a Tamil village / Diane P. Mines -- Permeable homes : domestic service, household space, and the vulnerability of class boundaries in urban South India / Sara Dickey -- Gender plays : socio-spatial paradigms on the Tamil popular stage / Susan Seizer.

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Text of Note

"This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions of land and space and how these descriptions build and inform diverse social and aesthetic realities. The essays examine "texts" drawn from a range of time periods and a variety of sources in Tamil culture, including imaginative literature, historical events and narratives, religious rituals, and daily life in contemporary Tamil Nadu. The book clearly demonstrates the ways in which early Tamil aesthetic and linguistic paradigms have survived to the present as living, vital expressions through which contemporary boundaries and social identities are shaped and constructed."--Jacket.

Title

Tamil geographies.

International Standard Book Number

0791472450

Social ecology-- India-- Tamil Nadu.

Tamil (Indic people)

Tamil literature-- Criticism and interpretation.

Civilization.

Social ecology.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.

Tamil (Indic people)

Tamil literature.

Tamil Nadu (India), Civilization.

India, Tamil Nadu.

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7

SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 020000

SOC-- 031000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Peterson, Indira Viswanathan,1950-

Selby, Martha Ann.

Date of Transaction

20201206195453.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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