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Title Tamil geographies : cultural constructions of space and place in South India / edited by Martha Ann Selby, Indira Viswanathan Peterson.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in Hindu studies
SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Dialogues of space, desire, and gender in Tamil caṅkam poetry / Martha Ann Selby -- Four spatial realms in Tirukkōvaiyār / Norman J. Cutler -- The drama of the Kuq̲avañci fortune-teller : land, landscape, and social relations in an eighteenth-century Tamil genre / Indira Viswanathan Peterson -- Ruling in the gaze of God : thoughts on Kanchipuram's maṇḍala / D. Dennis Hudson -- Cosmos, realm, and property in early medieval South India / Daud Ali -- Sanctum and gopuram at Madurai : aesthetics of akam and puq̲am in Tamil temple architecture / Samuel K. Parker -- From wasteland to bus stand : the relocation of demons in Tamilnadu / Isabelle Clark-Decès -- Waiting for Veḷḷāḷakaṇṭaṉ : narrative, movement, and making place in a Tamil village / Diane P. Mines -- Permeable homes : domestic service, household space, and the vulnerability of class boundaries in urban South India / Sara Dickey -- Gender plays : socio-spatial paradigms on the Tamil popular stage / Susan Seizer.
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Subject Tamil (Indic people)
Tamil (Indic people)
Tamil Nadu (India) -- Civilization.
Social ecology -- India -- Tamil Nadu.
Social ecology.
India -- Tamil Nadu.
Tamil literature -- Criticism and interpretation.
Tamil literature.
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Selby, Martha Ann.
Peterson, Indira Viswanathan, 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Tamil geographies. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008 9780791472453 0791472450 (DLC) 2007010149 (OCoLC)85898956
ISBN 9781435653290 (electronic book)
1435653297 (electronic book)