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Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and social history to construct a model of institut
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- Author
- Appadurai, Arjun , 1949-
- Publisher
- Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1981
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511557934
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Political Science, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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