The south Indian temple
Authority, Honour and Redistribution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3865613 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Appadurai (0000-0003-0929-7157, California University of Pennsylvania), Carol Appadurai Breckenridge (Cornell University) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-211 |
| Publication date | 1976-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/006996677601000201 |
| OpenAlex | W2009545659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 111 |
| References cited | 12 |
Ancient history · Honour · Political science · Politics · Redistribution (election · Temple · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law
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Introduction to temples and rituals
The Kakatiyas in Telugu Historical Memory
The Kakatiya Political Network
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Reading as Gift and Writing as Theft
The Society of Kakatiya Andhra
Forgetting Conversion
The Effectiveness of Ritual
Materializing the Self
Renewable Icons
Andhra's Age of Inscriptions, 1000–1650
Temples and Temple Patronage in Kakatiya Andhra
Hindu Temples and Development of Localities in Tamil Nadu (South India)
Les temples hindous et le développement local en Inde du Sud. L’exemple du Tamil Nadu
Theology as History
Market and money
Entangled Intimacies
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Jaina and Brahmanical Temples and Political Processes in a Forested Frontier of Early Medieval Southwestern Bengal
Subaltern agency and the problems in the project of decolonization in the study of religion and liberal secularism
Viṣṇu As a Hunter
Multiple meanings in South Indian temple worship
Theories of Practice
Temple Publics
Toward an Anthropology of Exchange in Tamil Nadu
The Carolingian local ecclesia as a ‘temple society’
Just Hindus
Aestheticized temples, rationalized affects
Constructing the Colonial Encounter
Viewing Telugu Inscriptions at Ahobila
Śaiva Monastic Complexes in Twelfth- Century Rajasthan
Curiosities, conspicuous piety and the maker of time. some aspects of kingship in eighteenth‐century South India
Where has Bish Vegas gone? The Auckland Project, post-secular urban restructuring and evangelical philanthrocapitalism
Placing automobility in postcolonial cities
From Port-City to World-System
Images and Ideologies of Dutch-South Asian Contact
The Political Economy of Craft Production
Odor and Order
Two Concepts of Conversion at Meenakshipuram
Nonhuman Governance
The Articulation of a French Civil Hinduism
The Cultural Dimension of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka
Gods, Priests and Purity
The Original Caste
Modernity and Spirit Worship in India
Princely India Re-imagined
Māmul' and Modernity in a South Indian Temple
Patronage and 'community
South Indian Christians, Purity/Impurity, and the Caste System
The “Fall” of Vijayanagara Reconsidered
Precolonial India in Practice
Acting in public versus forming a public
Intimations of modernity in South India
All gifting is sacred
Royal rituals and cultural change
South Asian Anthropology in the 1980s
Coercive gifts
Gifting and receiving
Mathas, gurus and citizenship
Forms of citizenship in pre-modern South India
Accommodating a mega-festival
Telling Otherwise
"The State, the Temple and the "Divine Slave
Beyond contiguity
Amman as social auditor
Patronage and community in a society of thieves
Idioms of Subordination and Styles of Protest among Christian and Hindu Harijan Castes in Tamil Nadu
Caste and its Histories in Colonial India
Revolution and Rank in Tamil Nationalism
The Politics of Adulation
Progress and Problems
A Christian Caste in Hindu Society
Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia
Leadership and Individuality in South Asia
The Old Gods Are Losing Power
Law, Legitimacy, and the Hereditary Rights of Tamil Temple Priests
From Empiricist Conflation to Distortion
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Religious Gifting and Inland Commerce in Seventeenth-Century South India
You Can Do Anything With a Temple
Jewels Set in Stone
Polemic, Diatribe, and Farce
Gouvernance de la philanthropie et pratiques caritatives musulmanes en Inde
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Bus-Stop Sami
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Skanda-Ṣaṣṭi
Social Organization of Temples in a Tanjore Village
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law)
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| Unique citing works | 111 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,36 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 111 |