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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Arnold, David John (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Burning the dead [Texte imprimé] : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition / David Arnold
Publication : Oakland (Calif.) : University of California Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xviii-249 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 223-242. Index
"Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora
across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of
movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the "traditional" practice
of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially
refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary
acceptance, and Indian adaptation. The book examines the critical reception of Hindu
cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference
point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and it explores the
struggle for the official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities
around the globe. Above all, David Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence
and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasingly social inclusivity,
and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood"
Sujet(s) : Crémation -- Religion -- Hindouisme -- Inde -- 19e siècle
Crémation -- Religion -- Hindouisme -- Inde -- 20e siècle
Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Inde
Hindouisme -- Appréciation -- Grande-Bretagne
Colonies britanniques -- Inde -- Religion
Indice(s) Dewey :
294.538 0954 (23e éd.) = Rites et cérémonies (hindouisme) - Asie du Sud Inde
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520379343 (rel.). - ISBN 0520379349 (rel.). - ISBN 9780520976641 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467976790
Notice n° :
FRBNF46797679
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Burning issues ; Colonial necropolitics and the polysemic corpse ; The city and
its dead ; Consuming fire ; The global dead ; The rebirth of cremation ; Cremation
and the nation ; Epilogue : rethinking the Hindu Pyre
