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Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The R¿m¿yäa tradition is well-known for an inexhaustible variety of forms and narrative structures transmitted by different media. Oral-Written-Performed examines selected textual, oral, visual and performing forms in which the R¿ma story has functioned in Indian literature and arts. It also investigates the techniques that transform the R¿m¿yäa narratives. The volume addresses the question how narratives become vehicles for literary conventions and ideologies expressive of diverse sectarian concerns, or cultural values. It is an excellent companion to earlier publications on the R¿m¿yäa tradition and indispensable reading for students of South Asian literature, arts and religion.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In an era marked by rapid media diffusion and globalised social movements, Mediatised Solidarity delves into the evolving dimensions of solidarity within Indian social and protest movements. Focused on the period from 2014 to present, it analyses the interplay between media practices, including social media, and solidarity expressions. Through three case studies - Shaheen Bagh, the Indian Farmers' Protest, and contemporary youth climate activism - the book explores how media and visual art shape and are shaped by solidarity and the extent to which shared memories and cultural heritage are used to stage social cohesion.…

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The R¿m¿yäa tradition is well-known for an inexhaustible variety of forms and narrative structures transmitted by different media. Oral-Written-Performed examines selected textual, oral, visual and performing forms in which the R¿ma story has functioned in Indian literature and arts. It also investigates the techniques that transform the R¿m¿yäa narratives. The volume addresses the question how narratives become vehicles for literary conventions and ideologies expressive of diverse sectarian concerns, or cultural values. It is an excellent companion to earlier publications on the R¿m¿yäa tradition and indispensable reading for students of South Asian literature, arts and religion.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 404 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book traces a conceptual history of literature, leisure and emotions in modern South Asia. Reading colonial capitalism as entwined with the ¿myth of the lazy native¿, it focuses on vernacular literary contestations in Urdu and Bengali. It foregrounds otium, leisure and idleness as entangled with emotions and temporalities. The book approaches literary spheres through the lenses of emotions, the self, and the community. Literary discourses of otium are analysed in stylistic innovations, negotiations of colonial modernity and postcolonial uncertainties. Highlighting key literary-conceptual expressions, discussions, and processes, the author explores nostalgia, melancholy, topophilia and haunting as emotions deeply attached to South Asian literary cultures while also resonating with concepts of otium across global modernity.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 336 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This volume is dedicated to Maya Burger, professor emerita at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne. It gathers contributions by friends, colleagues, and former students that echo the multiple dimensions of her work. Organised in four parts, Indology, History of Religions, History of Orientalism, and Hindi and Translation, these contributions explore different examples of encounters with ¿significant others¿. Analysing original historical and literary sources and reflecting on the methodological dimensions, the authors offer innovative perspectives on various processes of interaction and exchange between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world and within the subcontinent itself.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Neu. Neu Neuware, auf Lager.

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 356 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Religion is commonly perceived as an unequivocally defined concept. However, a historic perspective raises questions about this understanding and reveals religion as a concept that developed only in a process of negotiation with other religions. In particular, the 19th century is of special interest in this regard, as the colonial encounter intensifies tremendously in South Asia. The religions of South Asia are scrutinised, categorised and compared to Christianity by Europeans, which leads to the development of religion as abstractum. Missionary and orientalist critique as well as modern science pose to be an entirely new confrontation for the Muslims of South Asia. This book aims to analyse Muslim responses to this confrontation, which imply a translation of Islam as a religion as well as an adaption of the concept of religion itself. The Aligarh Movement is of particular interest in this regard, as it intensively engages in these debates, trying to integrate a re-interpretation of Islam in these discourses.…

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 532 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Wege durchs Labyrinth ist eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Rahul Peter Das. Sie enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge von Kollegen und Kolleginnen, Schülern und Schülerinnen sowie Weggefährten von Professor Das. Die hier versammelten Aufsätze bilden verschiedene thematische Schwerpunkte ab, die auch Professor Das in seinem umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Oeuvre bearbeitet hat. Dazu gehören Sanskrit-Studien, historische Sprachwissenschaft, Texteditionen in neuindoarischen Sprachen, Soziolinguistik, südasiatische Religionsgeschichte, bengalische und Hindi-Literatur, Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Indologie/Südasienstudien sowie auch Tamilistik. Einige der Beiträge knüpfen direkt an Rahul Peter Das¿ Werk oder bestimmte Schriften an, während die Gesamtheit der Aufsätze seine verschiedenen Forschungsinteressen und unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätze widerspiegeln. Beitragende zu dieser Festschrift sind Carmen Brandt, Renata Czekalska, Ines Fornell, Eli Franco, Ratul Ghosh, Olav Hackstein, Hans Harder, Martin Kämpchen, Klaus Karttunen, Makoto Kitada, Frank J. Korom, Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Frä, Halina Marlewicz, Ulrike Niklas, Tatiana Oranskaia, Felix Otter, Adapa Satyanarayana, Britta Schulze-Thulin, Sabine Franziska Strich, Heinz Werner Wessler und Benjamin Zachariah. DE.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 532 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Wege durchs Labyrinth ist eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Rahul Peter Das. Sie enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige Beiträge von Kollegen und Kolleginnen, Schülern und Schülerinnen sowie Weggefährten von Professor Das. Die hier versammelten Aufsätze bilden verschiedene thematische Schwerpunkte ab, die auch Professor Das in seinem umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Oeuvre bearbeitet hat. Dazu gehören Sanskrit-Studien, historische Sprachwissenschaft, Texteditionen in neuindoarischen Sprachen, Soziolinguistik, südasiatische Religionsgeschichte, bengalische und Hindi-Literatur, Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Indologie/Südasienstudien sowie auch Tamilistik. Einige der Beiträge knüpfen direkt an Rahul Peter Das¿ Werk oder bestimmte Schriften an, während die Gesamtheit der Aufsätze seine verschiedenen Forschungsinteressen und unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätze widerspiegeln. Beitragende zu dieser Festschrift sind Carmen Brandt, Renata Czekalska, Ines Fornell, Eli Franco, Ratul Ghosh, Olav Hackstein, Hans Harder, Martin Kämpchen, Klaus Karttunen, Makoto Kitada, Frank J. Korom, Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Frä, Halina Marlewicz, Ulrike Niklas, Tatiana Oranskaia, Felix Otter, Adapa Satyanarayana, Britta Schulze-Thulin, Sabine Franziska Strich, Heinz Werner Wessler und Benjamin Zachariah. DE.…

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 568 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book aims at investigating changes and continuities in Chinese perceptions of Russia and the West during the 20th century, paying heed to the fact that the respective ascriptions and ¿frontlines¿ were historically contingent: who and what represented ¿Russiä or ¿the West¿ at a given time and at a given place? Was ¿Russiä part of ¿the West¿, or not? And if it was, in which regard? Which factors ¿ foreign or indigenous ¿ led to changes in Chinese perceptions and representations and why? With such questions in mind, this book was taking shape, growing out of a German-Russian project funded by the DFG-RFBR. The German-Russian research team from Heidelberg University and St. Petersburg State University worked on exploring the topic together with colleagues from mainland China and Taiwan, concentrating on three major areas: 1. The field of socialization via a look into normative descriptions of Russia and ¿the West¿ in Chinese school textbooks which define images of the ¿other/s¿ from childhood on; 2. The field of literature and Chinese fictional representations of Russia and ¿the West¿ consumed by a Chinese reading public; 3. The field of visual and material manifestations which define images of the ¿other/s¿ in their own medial way and make them accessible also to a public far from purely discursive levels and to those who do not actively look for them. …

hardcover. Condizione: Wie neu. 375 Seiten; 9783946742777.1 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 284 | Sprache: Hindi | Produktart: Bücher | The proposed volume addresses issues of linguistic variation ¿ a phenomenon central to the study of language use ¿ in regards to the major official language of India: Hindi. It combines multiple theoretical and pragmatic approaches to a variety of linguistic phenomena conceptualised under the name of ¿Hindi¿, and attempts to obtain a more accurate portrayal of the changing reality behind this versatile taxonomic unit. In doing so, this volume provides insight into how the forms and functions of Hindi are changing across borders within and outside of India; the concept of language contact is thus present in many of the studies. Analyses are based upon data observed in written texts, including manuscripts, and elicited from oral speech. These contributions, prepared by established and emerging Asian and European scholars, investigate functional aspects of the regional, social, and cultural forms of Hindi and how they interact in differing contexts, time periods, and types of communication. A similar vantage point is adopted here, while investigating the possibilities and constraints of formal variation in the grammatical structures of Standard Hindi. In addition to providing analyses from the perspectives of both general linguistics and sociolinguistics, the book discusses issues associated with teaching Hindi in the context of language variation. The volume contains seven English contributions and four in Hindi. This project is distinguished by its innovative character in terms of data and width of scope, and it contributes towards our understanding of ¿Hindi¿ as a concept as well as towards that of the general principles of linguistic variability.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Deutsch | Produktart: Bücher | Die Käha-Upani¿ad ist ein vor etwa 2000 Jahren verfasster Sanskrit-Text, der sich mit dem Wesen des Menschen nach dem Tod beschäftigt. Als eine der frühesten Quellen, die eine als Yoga bezeichnete heilseffektive Methode lehren, hat sie auch außerhalb Südasiens Bekanntheit erlangt. Aufgrund ihrer textlichen Heterogenität wurde ihr jedoch schon oft Inkohärenz unterstellt. In der vorliegenden Studie legt Dominik A. Haas eine neue, kommentierte Übersetzung der Käha-Upani¿ad vor und analysiert sie mit Hilfe textlinguistischer Methoden. Er argumentiert, dass diese Upani¿ad von Anfang an als Kompilation konzipiert war, die neue kontemplative und yogische Lehren mit der Ritualmystik des berühmten vedischen Feueraltars verbinden sollte.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is impossible to imagine human history without emotions. But what is known about theoretical emotion knowledge in premodern South India This volume offers a first systematic examination of emotion knowledge as found in Tamil treatises and commentaries written from the 11th to 17th century. By following different theoretical strands, it sheds light on the questions that were raised by various emotion theorists, as well as their agenda and theorising practices. It points out changes, linearity, and disruptions in their ideas, as well as historically marginal knowledge. Perhaps surprisingly, the only systematic works on emotion produced by medieval and early modern Tamil thinkers were on emotion in poetics. 108 pp. Englisch.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 324 | Sprache: Deutsch | Produktart: Bücher | Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst findet längst nicht mehr nur in westlichen Kunstzentren statt. Insbesondere ¿emerging art markets¿ wie Indien oder China mit aufstrebenden Mittel- und Oberschichten ziehen seit Beginn der 2000er Jahre verstärkt die Aufmerksamkeit des globalen Kunstfelds auf sich. Diese Kunstmärkte fügen sich jedoch nicht einfach in den westlichen Kunstbetrieb ein, sondern differenzieren sich zu (trans)lokalen Kunstfeldern aus. Das Buch zeichnet nach, wie sich (trans)lokale Kunstinstitutionen, Wissensräume und Ressourcen in Indien zwischen 2000 und 2018 entwickelt haben und legt nahe, den Wandel der zeitgenössischen Kunstwelt in Indien als dezidierten Lokalisierungsprozess zu verstehen. Anhand der India Art Fair, der Kochi-Muziris-Biennale und den Positionierungen und Praktiken lokaler Kunstakteur*innen in Mumbai, Delhi und Kochi wird ein neues Selbstverständnis der kunstinteressierten indischen Gesellschaft sichtbar, das zunehmend zur Emanzipation von westlichen Kunstzentren führt.…

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 304 | Sprache: Deutsch | Produktart: Bücher | Die chronologische Einordnung von Texten kann für Authentizitätsforschung und Exegese entscheidend sein. Die Datierung schriftsprachlicher chinesischer Quellen kann u. a. durch Imitation antiker Vorbilder und unklare Urheberschaft erschwert werden. Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals die Entwicklung und Anwendung computergestützter Methoden für die Datierung chinesischsprachiger Quellen. Dabei ermöglicht eine lexembasierte Methode, der stilistischen Rigidität der Schriftsprache zu begegnen und unterstützt damit die philologische Arbeit. Zudem werden der Sprachwandel, die Eignung digitaler Methoden für die Untersuchung klassischer Texte und das Hanyu da cidian ¿¿¿¿¿ als wichtige Datenquelle für lexikographische Datierung untersucht.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In den altindischen Veden findet man Sätze mit sehr verschiedenen Inhalten, darunter religiöse Aussagen ('Varuna ist wahrhaftig der Götter König'), Lebensweisheiten ('Das Denken ist schneller als die Rede') oder auch banale Beobachtungen ('Gattin und Gatte waschen einander den Rücken'). Die bekannten Erlanger Indogermanisten und Indologen Karl Hoffmann (1915-1996) und Johanna Narten (1930-2019) haben bei ihrer jahrzehntelangen Arbeit an den Veda-Texten solche Sätze in der Originalsprache gesammelt. Diese Sammlung von 863 Kurztexten wurde von Antonia Ruppel und Bernhard Forssman zweisprachig (Englisch und Deutsch) mit Übersetzungen und einem vollständigen Vokabular versehen und wird hier erstmals veröffentlicht. 244 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book the author describes the Ancestors Ceremonies as practiced in the Taiwanese Catholic Church. The author's point is to demonstrate how the Chinese symbolic universe made a deep translation of the 'new' symbolic system represented by the Catholic doctrine. At the same time the effort of the Catholic Church in order to adapt the Gospel message to the local situation built up a particular phenomenon that the author defined as cultural dialogue. It is this dialogic relationship the process that the author defines as Culture. 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Susruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian medicine in the ninth century. It enables us to study the changes in this medical classic that have taken place from the ninth to the nineteenth century, when printed texts began to dominate the dissemination of the work. The present monograph describes the research project focussed on this manuscript and offers an edition, study and translation of the historically important chapter about the plastic surgery on the nose and ears. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The volume represents the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures of North India, Osaka University, 15-19 July 2022. It highlights the conference series' history, the influential 1970s manuscript collection foundational to Sant tradition studies, and multilinguality in Jain traditions. It further explores the role of women in court literature, Ved¿ntic interpretations, the symbolism of paintings in literature, S¿rd¿s and Gurmukhi cultural outputs, emphasizing the cosmopolitan nature of vernacular literature. 364 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In both the Vedic and the classical periods, a special elite class of people existed that were called Brahmins. In a rough manner, one might say that their material wellbeing depended on daksina in the Vedic period and on dana in the classical one. Broadening the perspective beyond daksina and dana, this book is on all sorts of giving in the context of pre-modern India, using Vedic, Sanskrit, Buddhist and, to a much lesser extent, Roman and Christian sources. The Brahmanical theory of the gift (i.e., the theory of dutiful gifting, dharmadana) is a major focus of, and has provided a major motivation for, this study. 276 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is not only goods, financial capital or technologies that are being traded, negotiated and circulated along the China-led Belt and Road Initiative but also values, emotions and cultural practices. The latter are often decisive when imagining and establishing a transregional infrastructure of the scale of the BRI. This book explores connections and disconnections along the New Silk Roads through narratives and their cultural configurations. Focusing on China-Africa-relations, the authors of this book investigate the role of narratives and various forms of cultural configurations to understand how processes of transregionalization shape local patterns of thought, perception and practice. 224 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - It is impossible to imagine human history without emotions. But what is known about theoretical emotion knowledge in premodern South India This volume offers a first systematic examination of emotion knowledge as found in Tamil treatises and commentaries written from the 11th to 17th century. By following different theoretical strands, it sheds light on the questions that were raised by various emotion theorists, as well as their agenda and theorising practices. It points out changes, linearity, and disruptions in their ideas, as well as historically marginal knowledge. Perhaps surprisingly, the only systematic works on emotion produced by medieval and early modern Tamil thinkers were on emotion in poetics.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Crafting Potency investigates the intricate interweaving of knowledge, practice, and materials through which potency is sculpted in Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine). Informed by Tibetan medical literature and extensive fieldwork with practitioners (amchis) from Ladakh, Dharamsala, and Kathmandu, the authors explore how potency is understood and manipulated in the making of multi-ingredient medicines. Taking inspiration from Tim Ingold's ecologically attuned phenomenology and Pamela Smith's concept of 'artisanal epistemologies,' potency is presented as efficacy-in-becoming-a fluid capacity sculpted and layered through skilled artisanship, ritual, and environment, rather than a fixed property of stable substances. Highlighting the deep immersion of amchis in their social, ecological, technical, and spiritual lifeworlds-and exploring what changes when knowledge is transmitted through institutional rather than lineage-based training-the book contributes nuanced practice-based perspectives to the anthropology of craft and the history of science. 256 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In den altindischen Veden findet man Sätze mit sehr verschiedenen Inhalten, darunter religiöse Aussagen ('Varuna ist wahrhaftig der Götter König'), Lebensweisheiten ('Das Denken ist schneller als die Rede') oder auch banale Beobachtungen ('Gattin und Gatte waschen einander den Rücken'). Die bekannten Erlanger Indogermanisten und Indologen Karl Hoffmann (1915-1996) und Johanna Narten (1930-2019) haben bei ihrer jahrzehntelangen Arbeit an den Veda-Texten solche Sätze in der Originalsprache gesammelt. Diese Sammlung von 863 Kurztexten wurde von Antonia Ruppel und Bernhard Forssman zweisprachig (Englisch und Deutsch) mit Übersetzungen und einem vollständigen Vokabular versehen und wird hier erstmals veröffentlicht. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the early modern period, the Sants emerged in North India as devotees of a formless interior god. The volume introduces seven Sant authors living in Rajasthan in the period from the first half of the sixteenth to the eighties of the seventeenth century. It explores their complex cultural background, their literary conventions, and their sectarian network, and presents samples of their poetry in the original Hindi with English translations. By far the most of the compositions in this volume have not been translated before, and of one of these the original text is published also for the first time. Sant poetry has been transmitted in oral and written form. It owes its continuing vitality largely to congregational and private performance. This fact has been illustrated by a number of audio and video samples. 240 pp. Englisch, Hindi.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the self-perception of critical architects in post-independent and contemporary India. It takes particular interest in the role of documentary films and other media forms used by architects to intervene in debates on affordable housing and to share their alternative visions on spatial design and sustainable architecture. As a heterogeneous and highly mobile group of social actors, architects and designers develop and implement viable solutions at the intersection of extremely complex challenges and specific local contexts. The book argues that the interconnections in their design thinking and work can best be understood through the conceptual lens of critical regionalism. 140 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In an era marked by rapid media diffusion and globalised social movements, Mediatised Solidarity delves into the evolving dimensions of solidarity within Indian social and protest movements. Focused on the period from 2014 to present, it analyses the interplay between media practices, including social media, and solidarity expressions. Through three case studies - Shaheen Bagh, the Indian Farmers' Protest, and contemporary youth climate activism - the book explores how media and visual art shape and are shaped by solidarity and the extent to which shared memories and cultural heritage are used to stage social cohesion.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The trajectory of the Dhari Devi Temple epitomises the idea of catastrophes as watersheds. In particular, flood disasters have accompanied transformation processes of the site located on Alaknanda River in the Indian Himalayas. As early as 1894, a flash flood had a significant impact on the site and the identity of the deity. Local flood legends gained new topicality with the planning of a hydroelectric power plant in the vicinity. They became part of debates surrounding the construction scheme that required the relocation of the sacred site. This case study explores flood discourses and lluminates their influence on a development project. It further demonstrates how previous controversies framed the public interpretation of two flood disasters in 2012 and specifically of the 'Himalayan Tsunami' in 2013. 312 pp. Englisch.…