Spatiality, Memory and Street Shrines of Amritsar

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...

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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:
Amritsar
spatiality
memory
popular shrines
regions
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4559

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