The Hegemony Of Heritage
Author: Deborah L. Stein
ISBN: 9789385360619
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Book Overview
The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthanthe Ambika Temple in Jagat and the Sri Eklingji Temple complex in Kailashpurithe author looks beyond their divergent sectarian affiliations and patronage structures to underscore many aspects of common practice. This book offers new and extremely valuable insights into these important monuments, illuminating the entangled politics of antiquity and revealing whether a monuments ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies. The Hegemony of Heritage enriches theoretical constructs with ethnographic description and asks us to reexamine notions such as archive and text through the filter of sculpture and mantra. Makes visible the multiple methodologies that can be mobilized to write nuanced histories of Hindu temple architecture. The authors approach is both refreshing and new. Skillfully weaving in postcolonial theory, object ontologies, and affect theory, among other approaches, the book opens up an exciting paradigm in the study of South Asian art and architecture. SUGATA RAY, Assistant Professor of South Asian Art and Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. DEBORAH L. STEIN holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and has taught at Mills College, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, and San Francisco State University. Currently Senior Lecturer at California College of Arts, she is the author of several peer-reviewed articles.
Browse this title within our Arts, Literature and Humanities collection. Edition details: English, 304 pages. Reference ISBN: 9789385360619.
About the Author
Deborah L. Stein is an art historian and curator specializing in South Asian medieval architectural sculpture and religious landscapes.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback
- ISBN Reference
- 9789385360619
- Publisher
- Mapin Publishing / University of California Press
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What is this book about?
The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthanthe Ambika Temple in Jagat and the...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Arts, Literature and Humanities and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Deborah L. Stein.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- If you’re drawn to serious scholarship that reshapes how we see the past, this book delivers. You’ll explore medieval temples not just as structures, but as living sites of ritual, memory, and power. Blending theory with rich ethnographic detail, it challenges how heritage is defined, preserved, and politicized. This is a premium academic work that rewards close reading and deepens your understanding of architecture, archaeology, and cultural continuity.
- Published by Mapin Publishing / University of California Press.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 304.
Catalog Description
The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthanthe Ambika Temple in Jagat and the Sri Eklingji Temple complex in Kailashpurithe author looks beyond their divergent sectarian affiliations and patronage structures to underscore many aspects of common practice. This book offers new and extremely valuable insights into these important monuments, illuminating the entangled politics of antiquity and revealing whether a monuments ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary...
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