Anna Lise Seastrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 5812366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Lise Seastrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Lise |
| FAMILY NAME | Seastrand |
| SIGNATURE | SEASTRAND A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2122-548X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discussing Hindu Studies From the Inside Out
BODY, HISTORY, MYTH: EARLY MODERN MURALS IN SOUTH India. By Anna Lise Seastrand. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 294. Hardcover $65.00. KRISHNA'S MAHABHARATAS: DEVOTIONAL RETELLINGS OF AN EPIC NARRATIVE. By Sohini Sarah Pillai. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. Hardcover $90.00. MERCHANTS OF VIRTUE: HINDUS, MUSLIMS, AND UNTOUCHABLES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH ASIA. By Divya Cherian. Oakland: University of Californi…
Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India
Body, History, and Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India
History, Myth, and Maṭam in Southeast Indian Portraits
Portraiture emerged as a major interest in literature, sculpture, and painting in early modern southeastern India. While this may, on one hand, reflect an interest in historical documentation, it is also indicative of the wider significance of mimetic representation across the arts. Pursuing one avenue of implication, this essay elucidates the relationship between historical, mythic, and ideal representations of unique individuals through portrai…
Motivated Reading: Text and Image in the Expanded Temple
While generations of scholars have recorded the rock-cut inscriptions found on the walls of southeast Indian temples, not until recently has attention been given to the inclusion of text in murals of the same region and locations. Epigraphists and historians of all stripes have focused mainly on the semantic content of text, largely ignoring the materiality, placement, and legibility of the inscriptions themselves. However, a more recent turn to …
Text, Image, and Portrait in Early Modern South Indian Murals
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Text, Image, and Portrait in Early Modern South Indian Murals
Motivated Reading: Text and Image in the Expanded Temple
While generations of scholars have recorded the rock-cut inscriptions found on the walls of southeast Indian temples, not until recently has attention been given to the inclusion of text in murals of the same region and locations. Epigraphists and historians of all stripes have focused mainly on the semantic content of text, largely ignoring the materiality, placement, and legibility of the inscriptions themselves. However, a more recent turn to …
History, Myth, and Maṭam in Southeast Indian Portraits
Portraiture emerged as a major interest in literature, sculpture, and painting in early modern southeastern India. While this may, on one hand, reflect an interest in historical documentation, it is also indicative of the wider significance of mimetic representation across the arts. Pursuing one avenue of implication, this essay elucidates the relationship between historical, mythic, and ideal representations of unique individuals through portrai…
Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India
Body, History, and Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India
Discussing Hindu Studies From the Inside Out
BODY, HISTORY, MYTH: EARLY MODERN MURALS IN SOUTH India. By Anna Lise Seastrand. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 294. Hardcover $65.00. KRISHNA'S MAHABHARATAS: DEVOTIONAL RETELLINGS OF AN EPIC NARRATIVE. By Sohini Sarah Pillai. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. Hardcover $90.00. MERCHANTS OF VIRTUE: HINDUS, MUSLIMS, AND UNTOUCHABLES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH ASIA. By Divya Cherian. Oakland: University of Californi…
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