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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 September 2009
      31 July 1981
      ISBN:
      9780511557934
      9780521053587
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557934
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.369kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian History, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (27)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian History, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (27)
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    Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and social history to construct a model of institutional change in South Asia under colonial rule. Focusing on the problem of authority as a cultural concept and as a managerial reality, Professor Appadurai considers some classic problems of South Asian anthropology: problems of deference, sumptuary symbolism, and religious organization. In addition, he addresses such issues as the nature of conflict under a hybrid colonial legal system, the political implications of sumptuary disputes, and the structure of relations between polity and religion in pre-modern South Asia. These aspects of the study should interest a broad range of scholars.

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