LEADER 03307nam 2200481 450 001 9910725072703321 005 20230608190421.0 010 $a1-4384-8013-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000011421749 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6326203 035 $a(OCoLC)1192499631 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_112253 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011421749 100 $a20210120d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMaterial acts in everyday Hindu worlds. /$fJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 210 1$aAlbany, New York State :$cState University of New York Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 225 1 $aSUNY series in Hindu studies 311 $a1-4384-8011-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Agency of ornaments : identity, protection, and auspiciousness -- Saris and turmeric : performativity of the material guise -- Material abundance and material excess : creating and serving two goddesses -- Expanding shrines, changing architecture : from protector to protected goddesses -- Standing in cement : Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains -- Afterword: Returning to material acts. 330 $a"Over the last few decades, there has been a renewed intellectual energy in religious studies around material culture; however, most of the attention has been focused on the ways humans use material objects and what specific materials reflect about humans. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger shifts the focus from human agents to material ones, which have an effect, or cause something to happen, that may be beyond what a human creator of the material intended. Analyzing materials from three regions where she has conducted extensive fieldwork, Flueckiger begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts, to the presence of cement images of Ravana in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic, in which Ravana is destroyed by the god Rama. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of specific religious practices in India as well as the parameters of religion more broadly"--$cProvided by publisher 410 0$aSUNY series in Hindu studies. 606 $aHinduism and culture$zIndia 606 $aMaterial culture$xReligious aspects$xHinduism 607 $aIndia$2fast 615 0$aHinduism and culture 615 0$aMaterial culture$xReligious aspects$xHinduism. 676 $a294.5/37 700 $aFlueckiger$b Joyce Burkhalter$0960794 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725072703321 996 $aMaterial acts in everyday Hindu worlds$93374984 997 $aUNINA