[PDF] The New Spirit In India eBook

Author : Nevinson Henry Wood
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2013-06
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ISBN : 9781314518252

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Author : Henry Wood Nevinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780483083301

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Excerpt from The New Spirit in India No hard-and-fast line can be drawn in history, but the arrival of lord curzon AS viceroy on December 3oth, 1898, marks a fairly strong and natural division. He had previously been Under Secretary for India (18 91 and under-secretary for Foreign Affairs (1895 and he was well known for the distinction of his Oxford career and for his travels in Central Asia, Persia, and the Far East. In the House of Commons he had further won a high reputation for industry, knowledge, and self-reliance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Miho Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000740919

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This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizsäcker. First, it examines the relations between būta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in būta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.