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Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam de Vijaya Nagarajan

Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam

Autor Vijaya Nagarajan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 oct 2018
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kōlam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and alertness, and Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth. Created by hand with great skill, artistry, and mathematical precision, the kolam disappears in a few hours, borne away by passing footsteps and hungry insects.This is the first comprehensive study of the kōlam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological, and literary contexts. The culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice, Feeding a Thousand Souls celebrates the experiences, thoughts, and voices of the Tamil women who keep this tradition alive.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195170825
ISBN-10: 0195170822
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: 107
Dimensiuni: 236 x 160 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

This book is a weaving together of ethnography and experience, and the culmination of the author's profound understanding of the kōlam's interlocking roles as invitation, art, play, and prayer. It is a tremendous gift to the field and a pleasure to read. Nagarajan's joining of the kōlam and the pottu, mathematics and dance, and ritual and ecology are each extremely sophisticated cross-disciplinary interventions that ought to be studied not only for the data assembled over decades of research, but also for the masterful clarity and sensitivity with which she describes this work.
Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam.
Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of thekolamwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold.
Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature.

Notă biografică

Vijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco and writes about Hinduism, gender, and ecology. She is active in the American Academy of Religion and in the environmental movements in the United States.