Site, Sight, Cite: Conceptualizing Wayside Shrines as Visual Culture
This article proposes a threefold framework for analyzing wayside shrines as artifacts of visual culture. Site casts shrine construction as a problem of the organization of space: a sacred space (the shrine) converges with a public space (the street). Sight defines the shrine as a visual phenomenon:...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2018-05-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4540 |