[INDOLOGY] New Publication: South Asian Festivals on the Move

[Ute Huesken]

Dear list members,

WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEW PUBLICATION,
DETAILS BELOW. 

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Ute Huesken

  

  

South Asian
Festivals on the Move 

ed. by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels


(Ethno-Indology. Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals, 13)


Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
April 2013
413 pages
ISBN: 978-3-447-06909-0


Contributions: 

Introduction by by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels 

_1.
Festivals as Sites of Public Negotiation_ 

Eva AMBOS & William S. SAX :
Discipline and Ecstasy: The Kandy and Kataragama Festivals in Sri Lanka


Kerstin SCHIER: Paṅkuṉi Uttiram and the Transmission of Cultural
Memory 

Alexander HENN: Moving the World--Moving the Self: The Gaude
Jagor in Goa 

Ute HÜSKEN: Flag and Drum: Managing Conflicts in a South
Indian Temple 

Rich FREEMAN: Arresting Possession: Spirit Mediums in
the Multimedia of Malabar 

_2. The Global and the Local_ 

Christiane
BROSIUS: Negotiating Belonging in a Megacity: The Spatial Politics of a
Public Art Festival 

Leah LOWTHORP: The Translation of Kutiyattam into
National and World Heritage on the Festival Stage: Some Identity
Implications 

Lokesh OHRI: :Political Appropriation and Cultural
Othering in a Heritage Festival 

Heike MOSER: Kūṭiyāṭṭam on the Move:
>From Temple Theatres to Festival Stages 

Karin POLIT: Moving Deities
and the Public Sphere 

_3. People on the Move: Festivals and
Processions as Public Events_ 

Silke BECHLER: Kumbha Mela: Millions of
pilgrims on the move for immortality and identity 

Axel MICHAELS: From
Syncretism to Transculturality: The Dīpaṅkara Procession in the
Kathmandu Valley 

Jörg GENGNAGEL (in collaboration with Rajendra Singh
KHANGAROT): Inside and Outside the Palace: The Worship of the Royal
Insignia (śastravāhanādipūjā) in Jaipur 

_4. The Old, the New and the
Old Renewed_ 

Annette WILKE: Tamil Temple Festival Culture in Germany:
A New Hindu Pilgrimage Place 

Paul YOUNGER: Pilgrims in a
Trans-national Setting: Pilgrimage in the Canadian Temple Traditions of
Ayyappan and Athi Parasakthi 

Contributors 

Index 

-- 

Ute
Hüsken
Professor of Sanskrit
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental
Languages
University of Oslo
Faculty of Humanities
P.O. Box 1010
Blindern
N-0315 Oslo
Norway

Room 387, P.A. Munch's Building
phone: +47
22 85 48 16
telefax: +47 22 85 48
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ute.huesken at ikos.uio.no
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Co-editor,
Oxford Ritual Studies Series
(http://ritualstudies.com/oxford-ritual-studies-series/)
Head of the
"Kanchipuram Research Project"
(http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/kancipuram/index.html)

Board
member (Norway) of the Nordic Centre in India (NCI)
The Oslo Buddhist
Studies Forum (OBSF):
http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/network/obsf/events/
Member
of the International Beirat of Paragrana. The International Review of
Historical Anthropology

 


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