Spatiality, Memory and Street Shrines of Amritsar

This paper explores semiotics at street shrines that foreground “popular” everyday faith and commemorative practices, like urs at Amritsar. These shrines are a blend of pre-partition and contemporary shrine practices, and hybridize identities in contemporary Punjab, imagined and negotiated through a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yogesh Snehi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2018-05-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4559