Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (1)

LUCA School of Arts (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

UCLL (1)

UGent (1)

ULiège (1)

VIVES (1)

VUB (1)


Resource type

book (2)


Language

English (2)


Year
From To Submit

2022 (1)

2015 (1)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Book
Kailas histories : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography
Author:
ISBN: 9004306188 9004304584 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Tibet’s Mount Kailas is one of the world’s great pilgrimage centres, renowned as an ancient sacred site that embodies a universal sacrality. But Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography demonstrates that this understanding is a recent construction by British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests. Using multiple sources, including fieldwork, Alex McKay describes how the early Indic vision of a heavenly mountain named Kailas became identified with actual mountains. He emphasises renunciate agency in demonstrating how local beliefs were subsumed as Kailas developed within Hindu, Buddhist, and Bön traditions, how five mountains in the Indian Himalayan are also named Kailas, and how Kailas sacred geography constructions and a sacred Ganges source region were related.


Book
Place matters : critical topographies in word and image
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 0228014859 9780228014850 0228013917 9780228013914 Year: 2022 Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Many but not all the contributions in this volume originated as presentations at the Critical Topography conference in 2015. Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.

Keywords

Geocriticism. --- Landscapes in art. --- Place (Philosophy) in art. --- Ai Wei Wei. --- Albert Camus. --- Anthropocene. --- Arcadia. --- Atomic Photographers Guild. --- Ayuituq National Park. --- Barthes. --- Berlin. --- Brewery Pond. --- COVID 19. --- Canada. --- Cape Town. --- Cezanne. --- Chamolangma. --- Chernobyl. --- Chicago. --- Colonus. --- Daiesh Refugee Camp. --- David McMillan. --- District Six Museum. --- Donetsk airport. --- Edward Burtynsky. --- Everest. --- Group Seven. --- Hamish Fulton. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Hiroshima. --- Indian Residential School. --- Indigenous. --- Jesper Svenbro. --- La Peste. --- Lesbos. --- Manto. --- Margaret Olin. --- Mark Ruwedel. --- Maurice Blanchot. --- Max Avdeev. --- Michel Foucault. --- Mont St Victoire. --- Mount Kailash. --- Nagasaki. --- National Socialism. --- Nepal. --- Newfoundland. --- Nora. --- Nunavut. --- Palestine. --- Pangnirtung. --- Paul Duro. --- Peter van Wyck. --- Port Hope. --- Poussin. --- QuAppelle Valley. --- Raymond Williams. --- Richard Long. --- Robert del Tredici. --- Saskatchewan. --- Sebald. --- Sophocles. --- Tibet. --- Walden. --- Walter Benjamin. --- X marks spot. --- aesthetic. --- art. --- aura. --- chorography. --- civic witness. --- colonialism. --- critical topography. --- disaster. --- document. --- imitation. --- inscription. --- keeping place. --- landscape testimony. --- lieu de memoire. --- modernity. --- painting. --- photographs. --- pictures. --- place. --- punctum. --- ruins. --- sublime. --- terra nullius. --- topos. --- trauma. --- walls. --- wilderness.

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by