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Feeding a Thousand Souls : Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- an Exploration of the Kolam
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Hinduism / General, General, Women's Studies, Decorative Arts
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"The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "This book is a weaving together of ethnography and experience, and the culmination of the author's profound understanding of the kolam's interlocking roles as invitation, art, play, and prayer. It is a tremendous gift to the field and a pleasure to read. Nagarajan's joining of the kolam and the pottu, mathematics and dance, and ritual and ecology are each extremely sophisticated cross-disciplinary interventions that ought to be studied not only for the data assembled over decades of research, but also for the masterful clarity and sensitivity with which she describes this work." -- Leah Elizabeth Comeau, International Journal of Hindu Studies "Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion "Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of theÂkolamÂwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion "Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura "The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of thekolamwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion "Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura "The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion "Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of theÂkolamÂwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion "Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura "The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "This book is a weaving together of ethnography and experience, and the culmination of the author's profound understanding of the kolam's interlocking roles as invitation, art, play, and prayer. It is a tremendous gift to the field and a pleasure to read. Nagarajan's joining of the kolam and the pottu, mathematics and dance, and ritual and ecology are each extremely sophisticated cross-disciplinary interventions that ought to be studied not only for the data assembled over decades of research, but also for the masterful clarity and sensitivity with which she describes this work." -- Leah Elizabeth Comeau, International Journal of Hindu Studies"Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion"Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of thekolamwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion"Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura"The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School"This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "This book is a weaving together of ethnography and experience, and the culmination of the author's profound understanding of the kolam's interlocking roles as invitation, art, play, and prayer. It is a tremendous gift to the field and a pleasure to read. Nagarajan's joining of the kolam and the pottu, mathematics and dance, and ritual and ecology are each extremely sophisticated cross-disciplinary interventions that ought to be studied not only for the data assembled over decades of research, but also for the masterful clarity and sensitivity with which she describes this work." -- Leah Elizabeth Comeau, International Journal of Hindu Studies"Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion"Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of theÂkolamÂwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion"Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura"The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School"This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "This book is a weaving together of ethnography and experience, and the culmination of the author's profound understanding of the kÅlam's interlocking roles as invitation, art, play, and prayer. It is a tremendous gift to the field and a pleasure to read. Nagarajan's joining of the kÅlam and the pottu, mathematics and dance, and ritual and ecology are each extremely sophisticated cross-disciplinary interventions that ought to be studied not only for the data assembled over decades of research, but also for the masterful clarity and sensitivity with which she describes this work." -- Leah Elizabeth Comeau, International Journal of Hindu Studies"Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion"Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of thekolamwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion"Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura"The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School"This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "This book is a weaving together of ethnography and experience, and the culmination of the author's profound understanding of the k=olam's interlocking roles as invitation, art, play, and prayer. It is a tremendous gift to the field and a pleasure to read. Nagarajan's joining of the k=olam and the pottu, mathematics and dance, and ritual and ecology are each extremely sophisticated cross-disciplinary interventions that ought to be studied not only for the dataassembled over decades of research, but also for the masterful clarity and sensitivity with which she describes this work." -- Leah Elizabeth Comeau, International Journal of Hindu Studies"Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion"Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of theÂkolamÂwe are treated to a delightful series ofthoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion"Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura"The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School"This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of EthnicStudies, University of California, San Diego, "Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of theÂkolamÂwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion "Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura "The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura "The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, "Feeding a Thousand Souls is a beautifully written and richly illustrated book with an abundance of color photos befitting the book's visual subject, the kolam." -- Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History, Religion "Feeding a Thousand Souls is at once a smart and sweet book. It is sweet because it winds around the author's own experiences and her scholarly journey back into her culture of origin. It is smart because it carries us along unexpectedly from her life through an ever-expanding Tamil Hindu worldview that is encapsulated but hardly contained in one art-ritual form. Through the exploration of thekolamwe are treated to a delightful series of thoughtful observations and reflections that reverberate far beyond the Tamil threshold." -- Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Reading Religion "Vijaya Nagarajan ... refers to the belief in Hindu mythology that Hindus have a "karmic obligation" to "feed a thousand souls," or offer food to those that live among us. By providing a meal of rice flour to bugs, ants, birds, and insects, she writes, the Hindu householder begins the day with "a ritual of generosity," with a dual offering to divinity and to nature." -- Rohini Chaki, Gastro Obscura "The kolam is the most beautiful and evanescent artistic form of the goddess in South India, created ritually each and every day by millions of women. This beautiful book is a treasure, bringing to life for the first time the wealth of meanings of this form of women's religious practice."--Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School "This is the book of a lifetime, and it represents a lifetime's work on Tamil women's daily ritual practice, the artful threshold designs variously known as kolam, alpana and rangoli throughout much of the Indian subcontinent. Vijaya Nagarajan tells local and diasporic stories of the kolam with passion, sensitivity, and a deep ethnographic identification with the women whose generosity daily feeds a thousand souls."--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Table Of Content
DedicationAcknowledgementsNote on Diacritics and TransliterationsList of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1- BeginningsChapter 2- Following Lines of BeautyChapter 3- RitualsChapter 4- ThresholdsChapter 5- AntalChapter 6- DesignsChapter 7- Embodied MathematicsChapter 8- Competitions: From Village to CityChapter 9- Embedded Ecologies and the Earth GoddessChapter 10- Marrying Trees and Global WarmingChapter 11- Feeding a Thousand Souls: A Ritual of GenerosityChapter 12- Endings
Synopsis
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a new kolam, an ephemeral but highly elaborate ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses, and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. The first comprehensive study of the kolam in English, Feeding a Thousand Souls is the culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice., Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and alertness, and Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth. Created by hand with great skill, artistry, and mathematical precision, the kolam disappears in a few hours, borne away by passing footsteps and hungry insects. This is the first comprehensive study of the kolam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological, and literary contexts. The culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice, Feeding a Thousand Souls celebrates the experiences, thoughts, and voices of the Tamil women who keep this tradition alive., Every day before sunrise, millions of Tamil women in southeast Asia create the kolam, an ephemeral ritual drawing created with rice flour on the thresholds of houses, businesses, and temples. The kolam welcomes Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, good luck, wellness, and alertness, while banishing Mudevi, the goddess of poverty, misery, ill-luck, sickness, and laziness. It also acts as a reminder to remember and ask forgiveness from the earth goddess Bhudevi for walking on her. Creating the kolam is a ritual of compassion and generosity, and is meant to feed a thousand souls by providing nourishment for insects and small creatures.The kolam forms a connection between the spiritual and the natural world for many Hindu women. This is the first comprehensive book on the kolam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological, and literary contexts. Feeding a Thousand Souls is the culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on the kolam and on the experiences, thoughts, and voices of Tamil women., Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and alertness, and Bhudevi, the goddess of the earth. Created by hand with great skill, artistry, and mathematical precision, the kolam disappears in a few hours, borne away by passing footsteps and hungry insects.This is the first comprehensive study of the kolam in the English language. It examines its significance in historical, mathematical, ecological, anthropological, and literary contexts. The culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice, Feeding a Thousand Souls celebrates the experiences, thoughts, and voices of the Tamil women who keep this tradition alive.
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GT470.N34 2018
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