Philip Lutgendorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 81044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Lutgendorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Lutgendorf |
| SIGNATURE | LUTGENDORF P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Sea of Separation: A Translation from the Ramayana of Tulsidas
Sea of Separation: A Translation from the Ramayana of Tulsidas
Surdas: Sur’s Ocean, Poems from the Early Tradition; and Into Sur’s Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary
Surdas: Sur’s Ocean, Poems from the Early Tradition. Edited by Kenneth E. Bryant; translated by John Stratton Hawley. Murty Classical Library of India, vol. 5; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. xlviii + 1010. $35. Into Sūr’s Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary. Translated with commentary by John Stratton Hawley. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 83; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 1029. $95
Two dances and a conference
Philip Lutgendorf participated in an international symposium on the evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema hosted at Sonoma State University in April 2017, where he also attended two-related e
Ritual reverb: Two ‘blockbuster’ Hindi films
This essay re-examines a highly successful and much discussed film of the mid-1970s, Jai Santoshi Maa, along with a comparably celebrated hit released two decades later, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! Theorizing that the unexpected success of both these films may lie in their structuring around popular forms of ritual, it situates each in the context of its production and reception and considers the nature and implications of some of the forms of partici…
Epic Nation: Reimagining the Mahabharata in the Age of the Empire
Making tea in India: Chai, capitalism, culture
This essay examines the process by which tea, a plant and product introduced into the Indian subcontinent in the early 19th century as a colonial cash crop, became indigenized and popularized as chai, often regarded today as India's 'national drink'. This process mainly occurred during the 20th century and involved aggressive and innovative marketing by both British and Indian commercial interests, advances in the technology of processing Assam t…
Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to one of the most beloved and widely worshiped of Hindu deities: the “monkey-god” Hanuman. It details the historical expansion of Hanuman's religious status beyond his role as helper to Rama and Sita, the divine hero and heroine of the ancient Ramayana storytelling tradition. Additionally, it surveys contemporary popular literature and folklore through which Hanuman's mythological biography is celebr…
Is There an Indian Way of Filmmaking
Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India
Evolving a monkey: Hanuman, poster art and postcolonial anxiety
Hanuman, simian sidekick to the principal human hero of the Ramayana tradition, has evolved within comparatively recent times into one of the most popular and ubiquitous of Hindu deities. He is revered by tens of millions as their ishta-deva or 'chosen, personal deity', and his shrines have proliferated in both urban and rural areas. The visual representation of this deity has likewise evolved conventions that, through the mass reproduction and g…
Five heads and no tale: Hanumān and the popularization of Tantra
Imagining Ayodhyā: Utopia and its shadows in a Hindu landscape
Monkey in the Middle: The Status of Hanuman in Popular Hinduism
La statut de Hanuman (ou Hanumat) dans l'hindouisme populaire. Hanuman (grand heros), roi des singes, est un personnage celebre de Ramayana
My Hanuman Is Bigger Than Yours
Inside-Outsider, Outside-Insider
Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila at Ramnagar
Grounds for Play: The Nauṭaṅkī Theatre of North India
The Life of a Text: Performing the "Rāmacaritmānas" of Tulsidas
The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas
Indian Theatre and the Inside-Outsider
The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas
The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas —and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and …
Ramayan: The Video
La búsqueda del Tulsidas legendario
The View from the Ghats: Traditional Exegesis of a Hindu Epic
The most popular book in northern India is a Hindi retelling of the ancient tale of Prince Rām and his wife, Sītāa, composed in about A.D. 1574 by the poet-saint Tulsīdās of Banaras. Throughout a vast region with a population of more than three hundred million people, this epic of some fourteen-thousand lines has come to be regarded not only as a great masterpiece of literature but also as a religious work of the highest inspiration-a status reco…
Is There an Indian Way of Filmmaking
Five heads and no tale: Hanumān and the popularization of Tantra
Making tea in India: Chai, capitalism, culture
This essay examines the process by which tea, a plant and product introduced into the Indian subcontinent in the early 19th century as a colonial cash crop, became indigenized and popularized as chai, often regarded today as India's 'national drink'. This process mainly occurred during the 20th century and involved aggressive and innovative marketing by both British and Indian commercial interests, advances in the technology of processing Assam t…
My Hanuman Is Bigger Than Yours
Evolving a monkey: Hanuman, poster art and postcolonial anxiety
Hanuman, simian sidekick to the principal human hero of the Ramayana tradition, has evolved within comparatively recent times into one of the most popular and ubiquitous of Hindu deities. He is revered by tens of millions as their ishta-deva or 'chosen, personal deity', and his shrines have proliferated in both urban and rural areas. The visual representation of this deity has likewise evolved conventions that, through the mass reproduction and g…
Imagining Ayodhyā: Utopia and its shadows in a Hindu landscape
Monkey in the Middle: The Status of Hanuman in Popular Hinduism
La statut de Hanuman (ou Hanumat) dans l'hindouisme populaire. Hanuman (grand heros), roi des singes, est un personnage celebre de Ramayana
Drama as a Mode of Religious Realization. The Vidagdhamādhava of Rūpa Gosvāmī
The View from the Ghats: Traditional Exegesis of a Hindu Epic
The most popular book in northern India is a Hindi retelling of the ancient tale of Prince Rām and his wife, Sītāa, composed in about A.D. 1574 by the poet-saint Tulsīdās of Banaras. Throughout a vast region with a population of more than three hundred million people, this epic of some fourteen-thousand lines has come to be regarded not only as a great masterpiece of literature but also as a religious work of the highest inspiration-a status reco…
Epic Nation: Reimagining the Mahabharata in the Age of the Empire
Drama as a Mode of Religious Realization. The Vidagdhamādhava of Rūpa Gosvāmī
The View from the Ghats: Traditional Exegesis of a Hindu Epic
The most popular book in northern India is a Hindi retelling of the ancient tale of Prince Rām and his wife, Sītāa, composed in about A.D. 1574 by the poet-saint Tulsīdās of Banaras. Throughout a vast region with a population of more than three hundred million people, this epic of some fourteen-thousand lines has come to be regarded not only as a great masterpiece of literature but also as a religious work of the highest inspiration-a status reco…
Ramayan: The Video
La búsqueda del Tulsidas legendario
The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas
The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas —and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and …
Indian Theatre and the Inside-Outsider
Inside-Outsider, Outside-Insider
Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods: The Ramlila at Ramnagar
Grounds for Play: The Nauṭaṅkī Theatre of North India
The Life of a Text: Performing the "Rāmacaritmānas" of Tulsidas
The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas
My Hanuman Is Bigger Than Yours
Imagining Ayodhyā: Utopia and its shadows in a Hindu landscape
Monkey in the Middle: The Status of Hanuman in Popular Hinduism
La statut de Hanuman (ou Hanumat) dans l'hindouisme populaire. Hanuman (grand heros), roi des singes, est un personnage celebre de Ramayana
Five heads and no tale: Hanumān and the popularization of Tantra
Evolving a monkey: Hanuman, poster art and postcolonial anxiety
Hanuman, simian sidekick to the principal human hero of the Ramayana tradition, has evolved within comparatively recent times into one of the most popular and ubiquitous of Hindu deities. He is revered by tens of millions as their ishta-deva or 'chosen, personal deity', and his shrines have proliferated in both urban and rural areas. The visual representation of this deity has likewise evolved conventions that, through the mass reproduction and g…
Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India
Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to one of the most beloved and widely worshiped of Hindu deities: the “monkey-god” Hanuman. It details the historical expansion of Hanuman's religious status beyond his role as helper to Rama and Sita, the divine hero and heroine of the ancient Ramayana storytelling tradition. Additionally, it surveys contemporary popular literature and folklore through which Hanuman's mythological biography is celebr…
Is There an Indian Way of Filmmaking
Ritual reverb: Two ‘blockbuster’ Hindi films
This essay re-examines a highly successful and much discussed film of the mid-1970s, Jai Santoshi Maa, along with a comparably celebrated hit released two decades later, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! Theorizing that the unexpected success of both these films may lie in their structuring around popular forms of ritual, it situates each in the context of its production and reception and considers the nature and implications of some of the forms of partici…
Epic Nation: Reimagining the Mahabharata in the Age of the Empire
Making tea in India: Chai, capitalism, culture
This essay examines the process by which tea, a plant and product introduced into the Indian subcontinent in the early 19th century as a colonial cash crop, became indigenized and popularized as chai, often regarded today as India's 'national drink'. This process mainly occurred during the 20th century and involved aggressive and innovative marketing by both British and Indian commercial interests, advances in the technology of processing Assam t…
Two dances and a conference
Philip Lutgendorf participated in an international symposium on the evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema hosted at Sonoma State University in April 2017, where he also attended two-related e
Surdas: Sur’s Ocean, Poems from the Early Tradition; and Into Sur’s Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary
Surdas: Sur’s Ocean, Poems from the Early Tradition. Edited by Kenneth E. Bryant; translated by John Stratton Hawley. Murty Classical Library of India, vol. 5; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. xlviii + 1010. $35. Into Sūr’s Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary. Translated with commentary by John Stratton Hawley. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 83; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 1029. $95
The Sea of Separation: A Translation from the Ramayana of Tulsidas
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