Tamil geographies
Subtitle: cultural constructions of space and place in South India
By: edited by Martha Ann Selby, Indira Peterson.
Contributors: Selby, Martha Ann.; Peterson, Indira Viswanathan, 1950-
Series: SUNY series in Hindu studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791472453
Subjects: Tamil (Indic people); Social ecology -- India -- Tamil Nadu; Tamil literature -- Criticism and interpretation; Tamil Nadu (India) -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dialogues of space, desire, and gender in Tamil caṅkam poetry / Martha Ann Selby; title: Four spatial realms in Tiru-k-kōvaiyār / Norman J. Cutler; title: The drama of the Kur̲avañci fortune-teller : land, landscape, and social relations in an eighteenth-century Tamil genre / Indira Viswanathan Peterson; title: Ruling in the gaze of God : thoughts on Kanchipuram's maṇḍala / Dennis Hudson; title: Cosmos, realm, and property in early medieval kingdoms / Daud Ali; title: Sanctum and gopuram at Madurai : aesthetics of akam and pur̲am in Tamil temple architecture / Samuel K. Parker; title: From wasteland to bus stand : the relocation of demons in Tamilnadu / Isabelle Clark-Decûs; title: Waiting for Veḷḷāḷakaṇṭan̲ : narrative, movement, and making place in a Tamil village / Diane Paull Mines; title: Permeable homes : domestic service, household space, and the vulnerability of class boundaries in urban India / Sara Dickey; title: Gender plays : socio-spatial paradigms on the Tamil popular stage / Susan Seizer.