Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case

by Arjun Appadurai

Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521053587
• ISBN13: 9780521053587
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"