The first volume of Collected Essays brings together research papers of Olivelle published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts. Words and the cultural history represented by words that scholars often take for granted as having a continuous and long history are often new and even neologisms and thus provide important clues to cultural and religious innovations. Olivelle's book on the Âúramas, as well as the short pieces included in this volume, such as those on ânanda and dharma, seek to see cultural innovation and historical changes within the changing semantic fields of key terms. Closer examination of numerous Sanskrit terms taken for granted as central to Hinduism, provide similar results. Indian texts have often been studied in the past as disincarnate realities providing information on an ahistorical and unchanging culture. This volume is a small contribution towards correcting that method of textual study.
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Titolo del libro
Collected Essays 1
Sottotitolo del libro
Language, texts and societyExplorations in ancient indian culture and religion
Autori
Patrick Olivelle
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2008
Copyright
© 2008 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-730-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-730-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-831-7
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