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

 

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Index  

 

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Ute Hüsken
Professor of Sanskrit
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
University of Oslo
Faculty of Humanities
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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