The hegemony of heritage : ritual and the record in stone / Deborah L. Stein.

"The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how architectural objects and societies' relationship to the built environment change over time. Using the pairing of two living medieval monuments in Southern Rajasthan--the Ambika Temple in J...

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Main Author: Stein, Deborah L., 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2018.
Series:South Asia across the disciplines.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Hindu Temple in diachronic context
  • Temple as geographic marker : mapping the tenth-century Sectarian landscape
  • Temple as catalyst : renovation and religious merit in the field
  • Temple as royal abode : the regal, the real, and the ideal in fifteenth-century Mewr
  • Temple as palimpsest : icons and temples in the Sultanate era
  • Temple as ritual center : tenth-century traces of ritual and the record in stone
  • Temple as praxis : agency in the field in Southern Rajasthan
  • Temple as legal body : aesthetics and the legislation of antiquity
  • Conclusion heritage and conflict : Medieval Indian Temple as commodified.