Making Faces: Self and Image Creation in a Himalayan Valley

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143 INDEX Abhinavabharati. See Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta, 88, 122, 123; Abhinavabharati, 123; rasadhvani, 88, 123 act of merit, 18 aesthesis, 122 aesthete, 83 “aesthete’s eye.” See Bourdieu, Pierre aesthetic, 14, 50, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 111, 121, 122, 123; aspiration, 84, 112; awareness, 82; categorization, 26; creation of an, 80; delight, 11, 80, 90; disposition, 124; environment, 52; experience, 79, 82, 84; expression, 13; field, 14, 35; ground, 79, 83; intent, 51, 90, 112; interchange, 79; interest, 51; judgement, 88; perception, 85, 123; response, 79, 88, 123; substrate, 79, 80, 84; value, 14; vocabulary, 86 aesthetics, 75, 78, 88, 122, 123; art criticism, 11, 13, 35, 48, 79, 84, 86, 88, 93, 123 (see also communal critique); indian theories of, 78 (see also rasa; rasa theory; rasika); speaking of, 75; theory of, 78 affective: experience, 123; mode, 86; process, 76; response, 78 agent, 30, 96, 112, 124, 128, 129; agency, 30, 91, 112, 129; complex agent[s], 129; constitution of agents, 30; independent agent, 96 allegiance. See power and prestige (of deities, mortals, objects) Anandavardhana, 122, 123; dhvani, 78, 88, 122, 123; Dhvanyaloka, 122, 123; suggested meanings, 78, 79 antiquity, 2, 9, 92; allegiance to antiquity, 119 Appadurai, Arjun, 120 aritha. See surfactant artifact, 82, 110, 118; collective consumption of, 85, 88; incomplete, 80, 89, 112 artistic, 24, 82, 86; activity, 11, 26, 51, 84; endeavor, 93; field, 85, 89, 112, 124; intention, 85; practice, 67 ashtadhatu, 15, 66, 117 baithak. See Indian classical music Bana, 115 Barlingay, S. S., 122, 123 Barthes, Roland, 127 Bauman, Richard, 117, 119, 120 Berti, Daniela, 118 Important terms and concepts are in boldface. 144 Index bhandara, 111, 117; bhandari (see temple committee) Bhattacharya, Neeladri, 126 biography of object, 84 body of the deity, 18 Bourdieu, Pierre, 11, 82, 85, 88, 100, 112, 117, 123, 124, 128; “aesthete’s eye,” 82, 85 brahmin, 93, 103, 104, 125 (see also caste: high caste); brahmanic, 125 Brihat Samhita, 115 Brouwer, Jan, 125 Burghart, Richard, 125 calendar print, 66, 122 Carpenter, Inta G., 117 cast: image, 28; metal, 15, 20, 111; mohra, 15, 24, 25, 66, 118, 122 caste: high caste, 12, 36, 39 (see also brahmin); low caste, 12, 36, 44, 45, 93, 97 (see also shudra); sub-caste, 90, 93, 95, 97, 112, 124, 125 (see also jati) ceremony, 4, 6, 7, 18, 42, 43, 67, 83, 103; attire, 104; destruction, 14; expense, 103; and ritual, 109 chieftain gods, 7 Chomsky, Noam, 111, 128; transformational grammar, 111, 128 Chua, Kevin, 119 classification, 120; of mohras, 32 colonial. See Dirks, Nicholas commercial, 66, 67 communal, 66, 93 communal critique, 11, 80, 82, 86. See also aesthetics: art criticism communitas. See Turner, Victor compensatory exchange, 93 connoisseur, 82, 83, 86 connoisseurship study, 32 consecration, 91; of carriage, ratha, palkhi, 18, 118; of mohras, 11, 37, 46, 66, 93, 111, 117; of objects, 9, 63, 80, 82, 89, 103, 109; of site, space, temple, 42, 45, 103, 104, 109 Coomaraswamy, Ananda, 118, 119 copper, 67, 68, 74, 122; patina, 74; proscribed use, 67; use in ashtadhatu, 117 cosmology, 91, 118, 126 counter-sites, 42 Cunningham, Sir A., 115 Da Matta, Roberto, 128, 129 Das, Veena, 125 Dashami or Dashera, 1, 3, 4, 6, 21, 22, 30, 112, 115, 116, 118 Daumal, Rene, 122 David, Luis, 127 Davis, Richard H., 117 d’Azevedo, Warren L., 121, 123 decoration, 18 decorative, 28, 48, 49, 56, 61, 63 democracy, 7; allegiances within, 24; importance of deities in, 116; institutions of, 4 dhvani. See Anandavardhana dialectic, 26, 34, 97, 98, 112, 127 die. See mold Dirks, Nicholas, 116, 118, 125, 126, 128, 129; colonialism, 125, 126 dissolution, 9, 11, 14 divination. See possession divinity, 15, 18, 32, 97, 120; in kingship, 32 Douglas, Mary, 121, 126 Dumont, Louis, 90, 125, 126; Hindu society representation and view, 125; Homo Hierarchicus, 125 Durkheim, Emile, 127 Eck, Diana, 118 Ekman, Paul, 122 essence of the deity, 20, 117 expressive domain. See performance Fardon, R., 125 feudal. See power and prestige (of deities, mortals, objects) Fischer, Eberhard, 120 Foucault, Michel, 42, 121; Heterotopias, 42, 121 Index 145 Gangayam ghoshah, 78 garhpati devata, 7 genealogy, 2; genealogical, 99, 116; hill baron, 2; Rajput, 2, 21, 30, 32; Thakur, 2, 90 Girard, Rene, 43, 121 Glassie, Henry, 120 gods and heroes, classical: Brahma, 94, 95, 96; Devi, 15, 22, 28, 29; Durga, 115; Mahishasura, 115; Rama, 22, 115, 116; Ravana, 115; Shiva, 22, 24...