Lives of Indian images
Richard H. Davis.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999, ©1997.
For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it, feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious objects are brought to life. Davis draws largely in reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many centuries.
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Bibliographic Information
- Format:
- Book
- Subject:
- Gods, Hindu, in art.
- Sculpture, Hindu.
- Art and anthropology > India.
- Publication Year:
- 1999
- Language:
- English
- Published:
- Princeton, N.J.
- ISBN:
- 0691005206
- Course:
- ACT103
Visual and Performing Arts - UPC No:
- 10.1515/9781400844425
- 9780691005201
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-315) and index.
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