Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia - by Catholic Church (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, focusing on the different and complex processes employed during the 'invention', construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>'Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia' explores the dynamic constructions and applications of the concept of 'tradition' within the South Asian context during the ancient and precolonial periods. This collection of essays covers a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, offering a stimulating array of papers on the different and complex processes employed during the 'invention', construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.</p> <p>To that end, the contributors have expertly analysed various key aspects of the development of 'tradition', namely: the textual and practical transmission of traditional canons; the dynamisms and strategies chosen for the renewal of a tradition; its internal and external dialectics; the procedures of its legitimation; the theoretical and pragmatic mechanisms of its survival; and the tensions and criticisms of traditional knowledge systems. Attention has also been paid to problems related to the primacy exercised by highly specialized traditional experts, to monopolies in the transmission of knowledge, to its means of cultural and political justification, and to the connections between a specific traditional field of knowledge and the surrounding social arena.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'[C]ompels the reader to re-examine the concept of 'tradition' and its applicability to the South Asian context. [...] [T]his is a work which will be of use not only to specialists in the various topics addressed, but to those interested in the ongoing methodological complexities involved in the study of South Asia.' -- Hazel Collinson, 'Religions of South Asia'</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Federico Squarcini is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florence, where he teaches the history of Indian religions.</p>
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