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The materiality of the past : history and representation in Sikh tradition /
Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as an evolving historical and social construction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the forms of Sikh memory
- Sikh materialities
- Representation of a community : literary sources from the eighteenth century
- Into the nineteenth century : history and sovereignty
- A history of possession
- Colonial governance and Gurdwara reform
- Territory and the definition of being Sikh
- Conclusion : community, territory, and the afterlife of the object.