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The Materiality of the Past
By Murphy
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Description
Widening traditional scholarly emphasis on holy sites and texts alone to include consideration of iconic objects, such as garments and weaponry, Murphy moves further and examines the parallel relationships among sites, texts, and objects. She reveals that objects have played dramatically different roles across regimes-signifers of authority in one, mere possessions in another-and like Sikh texts, which have long been a resource for the construction of Sikh identity, material objects have served as a means of imagining and representing the past.
Murphy's deft and nuanced study of the complex role objects have played and continue to play in Sikh history and memory will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Sikh history and culture.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
326
Release Date:
2012-10-23
Publication Date:
2018-07-04
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199916276
ISBN13:
9780199916276
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
655 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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