04582oam 22009734a 450 99624814790331620211015093609.01-4008-4442-810.1515/9781400844425(CKB)1000000000397287(dli)HEB02429(MiAaPQ)EBC6240669(OCoLC)904718622(MdBmJHUP)muse87289(DE-B1597)566235(DE-B1597)9781400844425(OCoLC)1198930599(MiU)MIU01000000000000005125865(EXLCZ)99100000000039728720110801d2021 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLives of Indian ImagesDavis, Richard HFirst paperback printing.Princeton :Princeton University Press,[20--?]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2021©[20--?]1 online resource (xiii, 331 p. )ill. ;0-691-00520-6 0-691-02622-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-315) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Translation and Transliteration --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. Living Images --2. Trophies of War --3. Images Overthrown --4. Visnu's Miraculous Returns --5. Indian Images Collected --6. Reconstructions of Somanatha --7. Loss and Recovery of Ritual Self --Conclusion: Identities and Manifestations --Notes --Bibliography --Bibliographic Appendix --IndexFor many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life.Davis draws largely on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries. He shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the only ones to enliven images. Bringing with them differing religious assumptions, political agendas, and economic motivations, others may animate the very same objects as icons of sovereignty, as polytheistic "idols," as "devils," as potentially lucrative commodities, as objects of sculptural art, or as symbols for a whole range of new meanings never foreseen by the images' makers or original worshipers.Art and anthropologyIndiaHindu gods in artHindu sculptureRELIGION / Hinduism / GeneralbisacshAbraham.Alpers, Svetlana.Bahmani Sultanate.Banks, Joseph.Bonaventure.British Museum.Delhi Sultanate.Esalam bronzes.Everest Art Gallery.Festival of India.Gandhi, Rajiv.Gangas of Orissa.Hedges, William.Hussain, G. Magbool.Jayalalitha.Kampana.Kampili kingdom.Mecca.Mughals.Place, Lionel.Sambandhar.Skelton, Robert.Tirupati.art market.biography.cultural property.dispensation.idols.labels.navakalevara.taxonomic shift.temple Hinduism.Art and anthropologyHindu gods in art.Hindu sculpture.RELIGION / Hinduism / General.704.948945211Davis Richard H103204MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996248147903316Lives of Indian Images2378382UNISA03262nam 22005295 450 991100748660332120250604125752.03-031-87324-610.1007/978-3-031-87324-9(CKB)39160617400041(MiAaPQ)EBC32145838(Au-PeEL)EBL32145838(OCoLC)1523369743(DE-He213)978-3-031-87324-9(EXLCZ)993916061740004120250604d2025 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Concise Introduction to Polymer Physics Theoretical Concepts and Applications /by Reinhard Hentschke1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2025.1 online resource (377 pages)Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,2192-48053-031-87323-8 Introduction -- Polymers - Microstructure, Classification, and Mass -- Equilibrium Conformation of Single Chains -- Thermodynamics of Blends, Solutions, and Networks -- Polymer Dynamics -- Selected Topics (Aspects of the Mechanics of Polymers, Filler Effects, Stable and Labile Liquid Crystalline Polymers, Polyelectrolytes) -- Appendix A: Phenomenological Models for Viscoelasticity -- B: Persistence Length from Fluctuation Theory -- C: Teaching and Studying the Material in these Notes.This textbook provides a concise and transparently structured one-semester course in polymer physics - the science, in addition to polymer chemistry, behind a class of ubiquitous materials. 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