Tamil geographies : cultural constructions of space and place in South India /
"This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Dialogues of space, desire, and gender in Tamil caṅkam poetry / Martha Ann Selby
- Four spatial realms in Tirukkōvaiyār / Norman J. Cutler
- The drama of the Kur̲avañci fortune-teller : land, landscape, and social relations in an eighteenth-century Tamil genre / Indira Viswanathan Peterson
- Ruling in the gaze of God : thoughts on Kanchipuram's maṇḍala / D. Dennis Hudson
- Cosmos, realm, and property in early medieval South India / Daud Ali
- Sanctum and gopuram at Madurai : aesthetics of akam and pur̲am in Tamil temple architecture / Samuel K. Parker
- From wasteland to bus stand : the relocation of demons in Tamilnadu / Isabelle Clark-Decès
- Waiting for Veḷḷāḷakaṇṭan̲ : narrative, movement, and making place in a Tamil village / Diane P. Mines
- Permeable homes : domestic service, household space, and the vulnerability of class boundaries in urban South India / Sara Dickey
- Gender plays : socio-spatial paradigms on the Tamil popular stage / Susan Seizer.
