01850nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005803700300007604100120010608200200011810000170013824500850015525000060024026000390024630000080028550011330029365000250142665000390145165000340149065000480152465000120157265000240158420260504130034.0260504b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788193367209  cPurchasednRRRLF, Kolkata  aEnglish  a730.954bROB/RE  aRob Linrothe  aREENCHANTMENTb: Masterworks of Sculpture in Village Temples of Bihar and Orissa  a1  aNew DelhibStudio Orientaliac2021  g263  aReenchantment: Masterworks of Sculpture in Village Temples of Bibar and Orissa is book of more than 250 photographs of sculptures and shrines within 57 chapters, each accompanied by explanatory texts (300 to 2000 words each) introducing village temple sites with 8th-13th century sculptures.

The book is introduced with an 8500 word essay entitled "Reenchantment & Divinity's Identity Liquidity" on Buddhist imagery in contemporary Hindu contexts and vice versa, issues of Buddho-Brahmanical iconographic exchange, and historical examples of appropriation or re-identification.

The villages included are in south Bihar around Gaya, Bodh Gaya, Nalanda and Rajgir, as well as a selection of rarely documented village shrines of north Bihar (Mithila), in Begusarai, Darbhanga and Madhuvani districts. In Orissa, village sites represented are in Puri, Cuttack, Jajpur, Baleswar, Mayurbhanj, and Khorda districts.

The majority of the photographs were taken by the author in 2016-17 while conducting research in eastern India, along with a supplementary group of comparative photographs taken at some of the same sites in 1989-90.   aArts & recreation   aSculpture, ceramics & metalwork   aSculpture and related arts   aHistory, geographic treatment, biography   aAsia   aIndian Subcontinent