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Language, Texts, and Society

Name: Language, Texts, and Society
Brand: Anthem Press
SKU: 9780857284310
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Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion

Szerző: Patrick Olivelle

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Anthem Press

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This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Patrick Olivelle

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2011

oldal

420

EAN

9780857284310

ISBN

0857284312

Enbook ID

04742258

Kiadó

Anthem Press

Súly

802

Méretek

160 x 236 x 32

Teljes leírás

This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts. Words - and the cultural history represented by words - that scholars often take for granted as having a continuous and long history are often new and even neologisms, and thus provide important clues to cultural and religious innovations. Olivelle's book on the Asramas, as well as the short pieces included in this volume, such as those on ananda and dharma, seek to see cultural innovation and historical changes within the changing semantic fields of key terms. Closer examination of numerous Sanskrit terms taken for granted as central to 'Hinduism' provide similar results. Indian texts have often been studied in the past as disincarnate realities providing information on an ahistorical and unchanging culture. This volume is a small contribution towards correcting that method of textual study.