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The Cow in the Elevator
- An Anthropology of Wonder
Engelsk Paperback

The Cow in the Elevator

- An Anthropology of Wonder
Engelsk Paperback

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In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder-a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder-apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples-into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780822370796
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0822370794
Udg. Dato:
29 maj 2018
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
29 maj 2018
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