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9780791472453

Tamil Geographies : Cultural Constructions of Space and Place in South India

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791472453

  • ISBN10:

    0791472450

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-05-08
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions of land and space and how these descriptions build and inform diverse social and aesthetic realities. The essays examine "texts" drawn from a range of time periods and a variety of sources in Tamil culture, including imaginative literature, historical events and narratives, religious rituals, and daily life in contemporary Tamil Nadu. The book clearly demonstrates the ways in which early Tamil aesthetic and linguistic paradigms have survived to the present as living, vital expressions through which contemporary boundaries and social identities are shaped and constructed. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Dialogues of Space, Desire, and Gender in Tamil Cankam Poetryp. 17
Four Spatial Realms in Tirukkovaiyarp. 43
The Drama of the Kuravanci Fortune-teller: Land, Landscape, and Social Relations in an Eighteenth-century Tamil Genrep. 59
Ruling in the Gaze of God: Thoughts on Kanchipuram's Mandalap. 87
Cosmos, Realm, and Property in Early Medieval South Indiap. 117
Sanctum and Gopuram at Madurai: Aesthetics of Akam and Puram in Tamil Temple Architecturep. 143
From Wasteland to Bus Stand: The Relocation of Demons in Tamilnadup. 173
Waiting for Vellalakantan: Narrative, Movement, and Making Place in a Tamil Villagep. 199
Permeable Homes: Domestic Service, Household Space, and the Vulnerability of Class Boundaries in Urban South Indiap. 221
Gender Plays: Socio-spatial Paradigms on the Tamil Popular Stagep. 253
Bibliographyp. 293
List of Contributorsp. 309
Indexp. 311
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