01798nam a2200217 4500 20250401141908.0 250401b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781032723686 Textual RTL RTL U475.2 R3 RTL Myths and Places: New perspectives in Indian cultural geography London Routledge 2023 xiv, 232p. :ill. Given its ambiguous relationship with ‘facts’ and empirical reality, myth has suffered an uncertain status in the field of professional history, with the latter’s preference for scientifism over more creative orders of representation. Myths and Places rehabilitates myth, not as history’s primeval ‘Other’, nor as an instrument of socio-religious propagation, but as communitarian mechanisms by which societies made sense of themselves and their world. It argues that myths helped communities fashion their identities and their habitat/habitus, and were fashioned by these in turn. This book explores diverse forms of territorial becoming and belonging in a grassroots approach from across India, studying them in culturally sensitive ways to recover local life-worlds and their self-understanding. Further, challenging the stereotypical bracketing of the mythical with the sacred and the material with the historical, the multidisciplinary essays in the book examine myth in relation to not only religion but other historical phenomena such as ecology, ethnicity, urbanism, mercantilism, migration, politics, tourism, art, philosophy, performance, and the everyday. Asian Studies Anthropology Sociology & Social Policy 751599 Kaul, Shonaleeka Editor CC 0 TB U475.2 R3 1308336 1308336 0 0 CC 0 0 RTL RTL 2025-04-01 0 U475.2 R3 RT1585181 2025-04-01 14:19:47 2025-04-01 TB