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  • EMOTIONS IN RITUALS AND PERFORMANCES
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    EMOTIONS IN RITUALS AND PERFORMANCES
    AXEL MICHAELS / CHRISTOPH WULF
    Challenging the idea that rituals are static and emotions irrational, the volume explores the manifold qualities of emotions in ritual practices. Focusing explicitly on the relationship between emotions and rituals, it poses two central questions. First, how and to what extent do emotions shape rituals? Second, in what way are emotions ritualized in and beyond rituals? Strong e...

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  • SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFICATION IN SOUTH ASIA AND EUROPE
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    SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFICATION IN SOUTH ASIA AND EUROPE
    AXEL MICHAELS / ‎CHRISTOPH WULF
    This volume critically examines the role of science in the humanities and social sciences. It studies how cultures and societies in South Asia and Europe underwent a transformation with the adoption or adaptation of scientific methods, turning ancient cultural processes and phenomena into an enhanced scientific structure. The chapters in this book 　 Discuss the development of s...

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  • EXPLORING THE SENSES
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    EXPLORING THE SENSES
    AXEL MICHAELS
    This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences. In drawing upon comparative perspectives from Indian and Western theories, the essays demonstrate the i...

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  • IMAGES OF THE BODY IN INDIA
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    IMAGES OF THE BODY IN INDIA
    AXEL MICHAELS
    This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading. Divided into three parts, the book examines the co...

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