Mary Storm

Head and Heart

Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138660311
• ISBN-10: 1138660310
• Artikelnr.: 44825499

Autorenporträt

Mary Storm is Academic Director, SIT Study Abroad India: National Identity and the Arts and Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates. Glossary. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements.
Introduction. 1. The Images of Sacrifice 2. Human Sacrifice from Myth to
Reality: the Integration of Tantra 3. Distinguishing Suicide and
Self-Sacrifice 4. Symbols of the Body Offering 5. The Gods who Receive
Sacrifice 6. The Heroes who Self-Sacrifice 7. The Historic Setting for
Self-Immolation 8. Remembrance and Memorial 9. Motivations for Abandonment
of the Body: Political and Military 10. Motivations for Abandonment of the
Body: Health and Society 11. Chinnamast¿: Divine Reciprocity. Conclusion.
Appendix. Bibliography. About the Author. Index