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Encompassing a Fractal World
Gil Daryn
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Description for Encompassing a Fractal World
Hardback. Presents a different paradigm, which opens up several perspectives for understanding and analyzing Hindu life and culture. This book attempts to 'connect the dots', moving beyond isolated local village-based studies in order to bridge the gulf between anthropology and Hindu studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRG; JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Encompassing a Fractal World presents a groundbreaking, innovative paradigm which opens up new perspectives for understanding and analyzing Hindu life and culture. In particular, it has crucial implications for the understanding of Hindu cosmology, ritual, architecture, kinship, social relationships, and agriculture as well as modern anthropological theories of ritual, action, and agency. Gil Daryn's main thrust is not that the fractal concept may neatly bring together much of what has been written about Hindu culture, but instead it argues the case for an additional and gendered fractal dimension. Encompassing a Fractal World is exceptional in scope, drawing from an extensive ... Read more
Encompassing a Fractal World presents a groundbreaking, innovative paradigm which opens up new perspectives for understanding and analyzing Hindu life and culture. In particular, it has crucial implications for the understanding of Hindu cosmology, ritual, architecture, kinship, social relationships, and agriculture as well as modern anthropological theories of ritual, action, and agency. Gil Daryn's main thrust is not that the fractal concept may neatly bring together much of what has been written about Hindu culture, but instead it argues the case for an additional and gendered fractal dimension. Encompassing a Fractal World is exceptional in scope, drawing from an extensive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739111734
SKU
V9780739111734
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Gil Daryn
Gil Daryn works with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Kathmandu, Nepal.
Reviews for Encompassing a Fractal World
This is an intricate book dealing with complex subject matter. Daryn's monograph is a carefully worded argument for the application of the 'fractal of matrimonial encompassment' as a key notion for making sense of and interpreting Hindu culture and society. . . .Encompassing a Fractal World is ethnographically rich (drawing on different techniques such as fieldnotes, personal reflections, and a ... Read more