Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as an evolving historical and social construction.
Anne Murphy offers a groundbreaking exploration of the material aspects of Sikh identity, showing how material objects, as well as holy sites, and texts, embody and represent the Sikh community as an evolving historical and social construction.
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Chapter 1 Introduction: The Forms of Sikh Memory * Chapter 2 Sikh Materialities * SECTION 1 The Past in the Sikh Imagination * Chapter 3 Representation of a Community: Literary Sources from the Eighteenth Century * Chapter 4 Into the Nineteenth Century: History and Sovereignty * SECTION 2 Possessing the Past * Chapter 5 A History of Possession * Chapter 6 Colonial Governance and Gurdwara Reform * Chapter 7 Territory and the Definition of Being Sikh * Chapter 8 Conclusion Community, Territory, and the Afterlife of the Object * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Chapter 1 Introduction: The Forms of Sikh Memory * Chapter 2 Sikh Materialities * SECTION 1 The Past in the Sikh Imagination * Chapter 3 Representation of a Community: Literary Sources from the Eighteenth Century * Chapter 4 Into the Nineteenth Century: History and Sovereignty * SECTION 2 Possessing the Past * Chapter 5 A History of Possession * Chapter 6 Colonial Governance and Gurdwara Reform * Chapter 7 Territory and the Definition of Being Sikh * Chapter 8 Conclusion Community, Territory, and the Afterlife of the Object * Bibliography * Index
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