Contested Meanings
Tantra and the poetics of Mithila art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Brown (0000-0002-9421-0185, California State University, Chico, corresponding author), Carolyn Henning Brown |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 717-737 |
| Publication date | 1996-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2162310547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 28 |
The art of the women of Mithila, known as Mithila or Madhubani art, has attracted a good deal of international interest as a folk art medium and a good deal of disagreement concerning interpretation. In this article I question those interpretations that view the art as tantric because they have been elicited from conversations among a few Brahman men with Western scholars predisposed to find tantric meanings. Using women's commentaries, contextual ritual analysis, and trope theory, I develop an analysis in which I see the art as reflexive-an iconic tradition of women's understanding of selfhood in patriarchal society. [art, India, Mithila art, women, tantra, ritual, trope theory
Aesthetics · Art · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Reflexivity · Sociology · Tantra · Trope (literature · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2015 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |