Main entry:

Flood, Finbarr Barry.

Title & Author:

Objects of translation : material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter / Finbarr B. Flood.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.

Description:

xv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-352) and index.
Roots or Routes? -- Networks, Translation, and Transculturation -- Things and Texts -- Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries -- Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy -- Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography -- Cultural Cross-dressing -- Prestigious Imitation -- Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs -- The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt -- Accommodating the Infidel -- Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude -- From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander -- Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira -- Looking at Loot -- Signs of Sovereignty -- Looting and Difference -- Trophies and Transculturation -- Remaking Monuments -- Taxonomies, Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin -- Rupture and Reinscription -- Noble Chambers and Translated Stones -- Patrons and Masons -- Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity -- Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies -- A World within a World -- Monuments and Memory -- The Fate of Hammira -- Conclusion : In and Out of Place -- Appendix : Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned.

Summary:

'Objects of Translation' offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India.

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ISBN:

9780691125947 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691125945 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691180741
9780691180748

Subject:

Material culture South Asia History.
Cultural geography South Asia History.
Culture matérielle Asie méridionale Histoire.
Géographie culturelle Asie méridionale Histoire.
21.70 religious architecture.
71.56 material culture (sociology)
Cultural geography
Ethnic relations
Material culture
Hindu
Islam
Kulturaustausch
Kunst
Muslim
Sachkultur
Architecture.
Intercultural comparison.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Architektur Südasien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Sachkultur Südasien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Hinduismus Islam Südasien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Islam Hinduismus Südasien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Kulturaustausch Indien Zentralasien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Kulturaustausch Zentralasien Indien Geschichte Mittelalter.
Etniska relationer historia Asien.
Kulturmöten historia Asien.
South Asia Ethnic relations History.
South Asia Ethnic relations.
Asie méridionale Relations interethniques Histoire.
South Asia
Indien
Südasien
India.
Pakistan.
Asien kulturhistoria.

Form/genre:

History

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Holdings:

Location: Library main 273225
Call No.: BIB 206735
Status: Available