Hot Scorpions, Sweet Peacocks
Kachchhe Art, Architecture and Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vishvajit Pandya (Department of Anthropology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-75 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135918359800300103 |
| OpenAlex | W2150565097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Bhungu a cylindrical residential house built by the traditional craftsmen of the Kachchh desert is a place of great significance. For the Kachchhe deco rated surface of the house and the elaborate needlework done by women present an aesthetic system where meanings are made by utilizing aspects of 'light reflected' and 'weight filled in'. When Kachchhe people say that they 'wear a house and live in a cloth' they are expressing their own cul tural idea, utilized for analysing how meanings are made out of Kachchhe material culture, to represent the ideology of hospitality and the structural events of visiting and social exchange
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2015 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |