Scattered goddesses
Subtitle: travels with the yoginis
By: Padma Kaimal
Series: Asia past & present : new research from AAS -- no. 8
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780924304675
Subjects: Art and society; Hindu sculpture; Antiquities; Collectors and collecting; Hindu goddesses in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Introduction: Collecting as Scattering : The Case of the Kanchi Yoginis and Their Companions; title: Who They Are : Identifying the Dispersed Sculptures; title: Who They Were : Reading the Dispersed Sculptures; title: Where They Lived : Reimagining the Lost Yogini Temple in Kanchi; title: How They Left : Dispersing the Kanchi Goddesses and Their Companions; title: Where They Went : Collecting the Kanchi Sculptures; title: How They Live : Displaying the Kanchi Sculptures; title: Epilogue: Where to Go? Issues of Cultural Property.