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Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains - Nachiket Chanchani

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains

Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2019
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74451-3 (ISBN)
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From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage.

Nachiket Chanchani’s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent.

Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains

Nachiket Chanchani is associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang
Zusatzinfo 80 color illus., 26 b&w illus., 5 maps
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-295-74451-0 / 0295744510
ISBN-13 978-0-295-74451-3 / 9780295744513
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