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"To be human means to need things. Even more human is to need more and more of them. In this engaging, charming book, archaeologist, curator, and writer Chip Colwell takes us around the world, covering topics as wide-ranging as the dawn of tool making, the earliest cave paintings, the complexities of clothing, the Industrial Revolution, the torrent of gizmos invented to bring us closer and supposedly make our lives easier, and, finally, the mountains of unwanted stuff in dumps. Along the way, he raises questions such as: Why is a treasured keepsake sacred to one person but meaningless to another? What do we go through when we clean out the belongings of the dearly departed? And what is the point of storing things in museums? The book is organized around three historical phases: (1) the invention of tools; (2) the dawn of the belief that things mean something beyond their immediate use (around 50,000 years ago); and (3) the Industrial Revolution and the age of mass consumption. Colwell takes us on a tour across millions of years to explain how humans have arrived at this moment-a world that both requires things and is suffering because of them"--

Material culture --- History. --- Material culture, Human evolution, Oldowan, Techno-organic evolution, Composite tools, Aesthetics, Guanyin, Industrial revolution, Planned obsolescence, Hoarding, archeology, pollution, environment, sociology, cultural history.

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By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely identified with the royalty in South and Southeast Asia, and the Tibetans continue to this day to view the Dalai Lamas as his incarnations, in China he became a she-Kuan-yin, the ""Goddess of Mercy""-and has a very different history. The causes and processes of this metamorphosis have perplexed Buddhis

Buddhism. --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Avalokiteśvara --- Aryāvalokiteśvara --- Guanyin --- Kannon --- Kuan-yin --- Kun Iam --- Zhanraĭsig --- Arʹi︠a︡abal --- Miaoshan --- Avalokitesvara (Buddhist deity)

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The goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, originally a male deity. He gradually became indigenized as a female deity in China over the span of nearly a millennium. By the Ming (1358–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods, Guanyin had become the most popular female deity in China. In Becoming Guanyin, Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin.Li focuses on the power of material things to enable women to access religious experience and transcendence. In particular, she examines how secular Buddhist women expressed mimetic devotion and pursued religious salvation through creative depictions of Guanyin in different media such as painting and embroidery and through bodily portrayals of the deity using jewelry and dance. These material displays expressed a worldview that differed from yet fit within the Confucian patriarchal system. Attending to the fabrication and use of “women’s things” by secular women, Li offers new insight into the relationships between worshipped and worshipper in Buddhist practice. Combining empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies, Becoming Guanyin is a field-changing analysis that reveals the interplay among material culture, religion, and their gendered transformations.

Buddhist women. --- Women in Buddhism. --- Avalokiteśvara, --- Buddhist women --- Women in Buddhism --- S11/0710 --- S17/0500 --- Buddhism --- Women, Buddhist --- Women --- China: Social sciences--Women and gender: general and before 1949 --- China: Art and archaeology--Buddhist art: general --- Avalokiteśvara --- Aryāvalokiteśvara --- Guanyin --- Kannon --- Kuan-yin --- Kun Iam --- Zhanraĭsig --- Miaoshan --- Arʹi︠a︡abal --- Buddhist art and symbolism

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Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries and sensibilities-in short, that public religion is politics. The essays in this book show how projects of secularism come up against projects and ambitions of a religious nature, a particular form of contestation that takes the city as its public arena. Questioning the limits of cities like Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, and Shanghai, the authors assert that Asian cities have to be understood not as global models of futuristic city planning but as larger landscapes of spatial imagination that have specific cultural and political trajectories. Religion plays a central role in the politics of heritage that is emerging from the debris of modernist city planning. Megacities are arenas for the assertion of national and transnational aspirations as Asia confronts modernity. Cities are also sites of speculation, not only for those who invest in real estate but also for those who look for housing, employment, and salvation. In its potential and actual mobility, the sacred creates social space in which they all can meet. Handbook of Religion and the Asian City makes the comparative case that one cannot study the historical patterns of urbanization in Asia without paying attention to the role of religion in urban aspirations.

Cities and towns --- City planning --- Religion and politics --- City dwellers --- Religious aspects. --- Religious life --- Asia --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion. --- asian cities. --- asian megachurches. --- asian politics. --- asian religions. --- asian religious customs. --- asian secularism. --- asias urban aspirations. --- buddhism. --- buddhist temples. --- contested space asia. --- guanyin temple. --- modern religion in asia. --- mumbai. --- philippines. --- politics of space asia. --- politics of space. --- politics. --- public religion asia. --- public religion. --- religion and secularism asia. --- religion. --- religions of asia. --- religious spaces in asia. --- sacred space. --- singapore. --- suzhou. --- twelver shiites. --- urban planning asia. --- urban spaces in asia. --- urban theory.

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In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912. By the end of the Taiping War in 1864, however, the descendants of these conquering people were coming to terms with a loss of legal definition, an ever-steeper decline in living standards, and a sense of abandonment by the Qing court. Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), Orphan Warriors is the first attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. The book reveals that the Manchus were not "sinicized," but that they were growing in consciousness of their separate ethnicity in response to changes in their own position and in Chinese attitudes toward them. Pamela Kyle Crossley's treatment of the Suwan Guwalgiya family of Hangzhou is hinged upon Jinliang (1878-1962), who was viewed at various times as a progressive reformer, a promising scholar, a bureaucratic hack, a traitor, and a relic. The author sees reflected in the ambiguities of his persona much of the plight of other Manchus as they were transformed from a conquering caste to an ethnic minority. Throughout Crossley explores the relationships between cultural decline and cultural survival, polity and identity, ethnicity and the disintegration of empires, all of which frame much of our understanding of the origins of the modern world.

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