Re-envisioning Siva Na araja - A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Re-envisioning Siva Na araja. A Multidisciplinary Perspective offers new insights into the dancing Siva as icon and concept. Each of the seven essays in this volume addresses an aspect of the Na araja (a specific form of the dancing Siva) that has been until now untouched by scholars, or one for which the research is here moved substantially forward. Through the use of hitherto unexplored materials - murals, prints, icons, Sanskrit iconographic and ritual texts, Tamil inscriptions, and the analysis of metal alloys and casting techniques - old views are checked and challenged, and new ideas are proposed. Combining a wide range of fields of expertise, the volume will add to our knowledge about this well-studied, but poorly understood icon. With contributions by Anna A. Slaczka, Anna L. Dallapiccola, Nicolas Cane, Leslie C. Orr, Richard H. Davis, Sharada Srinivasan, Libbie Mills, Corinna Wessels-Mevissen.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anna Slaczka (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2023
• EAN: 9789004499416
• ISBN: 978-90-0-449941-6
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 224 mm x 8 mm x 259 mm
• Weight: 416 g
• Illustrations: 120 Farbabb.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions