Conversations with the Animate 'Other'
Historical Representations of Human and Non-Human Interactions in India
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2023
320 pages
978-93-5640-690-2 (ISBN)
Description
Human interventions with living entities have had to be in a constant state of negotiating space necessary for co-habitation with animals, birds, trees, plants, grasslands, forests, hills, water bodies in the creation of villages and other settlements. The book argues that negotiating this space meant sharing, which impacted economic strategies, religious experiences, cultural interactions and oral performances that humans have strategized and preserved. This intersectional theme, through individual case studies, ultimately provides us the civilizational ethos of the Indian sub-continent on how human non-human relations informed it.
The book provides a window on how this relationship was represented in a variety of material and literary texts, visual representations, archival records, folklore and oral testimonies. It brings to the fore these narratives over the longue durée to explicate the complex and delicate relationships in region specific ecological settings and thus give readers a perspective that crosses disciplinary and conceptual boundaries.
The book provides a window on how this relationship was represented in a variety of material and literary texts, visual representations, archival records, folklore and oral testimonies. It brings to the fore these narratives over the longue durée to explicate the complex and delicate relationships in region specific ecological settings and thus give readers a perspective that crosses disciplinary and conceptual boundaries.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-93-5640-690-2 (9789356406902)
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Aloka Parasher-Sen
Conversations with the Animate 'Other'
Historical representations of Human and non-Human interactions in India
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09/2023
Bloomsbury Academic India
€116.50
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Aloka Parasher Sen is Professor Emerita, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, where she had earlier served in the Department of History (1979-2018).
Content
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Preface
I: QUERYING EMBEDDED HUMAN NONHUMAN RELATIONS
1. Human Histories and Negotiations with the Non-Human: ALOKA PARASHER SEN
2. Imagination and Presence: Human Animal Relations and the Arts of Precolonial Deccan: SUDESHNA GUHA
3. Animal Doubles of the Buddha: REIKO OHNUMA
II. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE 'OTHER'
4. Thus Spoke the Animals: Moral lives of the Animals in the Jatakas and the Panchatantra: SAGNIK SAHA
5. Elephant Education, Linguistic Articulation, or Punishment? Gajasiksha as Interspecies Communication in Elephant Manuals of Early India: ANDREA GUTIÉRREZ
6. Of a Porcine Mother and her Tamil Children: NACHIKET CHANCHANI
7. Serpents/Nagas in Jaina Visual Imagery of India: VIRAJ SHAH
III WEAVING ENTWINED HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
8. From Earth to Form - The Terracotta World of the Non-Human: ALOKA PARASHER SEN
9. Situating camels and other animals in the Early Medieval efflorescence of the Thar: ANCHIT JAIN
10. Herds, Conflicts and Movements: Rethinking State, Rethinking Pastoralism: Deccan in Early Medieval?: AJAY VISHWAS DANDEKAR
11. "Wild ecology" of Hunting and Forest Beasts in Colonial India: British Imperial and Indian Adivasi Attitudes (1820-1910): VIJAYA RAMADAS MANDALA
IV ENTANGLED PASTS AND PRESENTS
12. Human-Nonhuman Entanglements: The Toda of the Nilgiri Hills: ALOK KUMAR PANDEY
13. Human-Serpent Entanglement in Kerala: Folklore and Myths: PARVATHY V
14. Mutable Waterscapes, Inconsistent Ontologies: Re-Cognition of Hydrosocial Entanglements in Deltaic Bengal:
SOHINI CHAKRABORTY
15. Knitting Garlands, Tying Knots: A Floral Ontology of Widows in Bengal: DISHANI ROY
16. Reconfiguring 'Agrarian Sociality' through Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Imaginaries: An Ethnographic Exploration: NABANITA SAMANTA
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Maps
Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Preface
I: QUERYING EMBEDDED HUMAN NONHUMAN RELATIONS
1. Human Histories and Negotiations with the Non-Human: ALOKA PARASHER SEN
2. Imagination and Presence: Human Animal Relations and the Arts of Precolonial Deccan: SUDESHNA GUHA
3. Animal Doubles of the Buddha: REIKO OHNUMA
II. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE 'OTHER'
4. Thus Spoke the Animals: Moral lives of the Animals in the Jatakas and the Panchatantra: SAGNIK SAHA
5. Elephant Education, Linguistic Articulation, or Punishment? Gajasiksha as Interspecies Communication in Elephant Manuals of Early India: ANDREA GUTIÉRREZ
6. Of a Porcine Mother and her Tamil Children: NACHIKET CHANCHANI
7. Serpents/Nagas in Jaina Visual Imagery of India: VIRAJ SHAH
III WEAVING ENTWINED HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
8. From Earth to Form - The Terracotta World of the Non-Human: ALOKA PARASHER SEN
9. Situating camels and other animals in the Early Medieval efflorescence of the Thar: ANCHIT JAIN
10. Herds, Conflicts and Movements: Rethinking State, Rethinking Pastoralism: Deccan in Early Medieval?: AJAY VISHWAS DANDEKAR
11. "Wild ecology" of Hunting and Forest Beasts in Colonial India: British Imperial and Indian Adivasi Attitudes (1820-1910): VIJAYA RAMADAS MANDALA
IV ENTANGLED PASTS AND PRESENTS
12. Human-Nonhuman Entanglements: The Toda of the Nilgiri Hills: ALOK KUMAR PANDEY
13. Human-Serpent Entanglement in Kerala: Folklore and Myths: PARVATHY V
14. Mutable Waterscapes, Inconsistent Ontologies: Re-Cognition of Hydrosocial Entanglements in Deltaic Bengal:
SOHINI CHAKRABORTY
15. Knitting Garlands, Tying Knots: A Floral Ontology of Widows in Bengal: DISHANI ROY
16. Reconfiguring 'Agrarian Sociality' through Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Imaginaries: An Ethnographic Exploration: NABANITA SAMANTA
List of Contributors
