236 25 19MB
English Pages 488 Year 2016
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD EPUB FILE
India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing si
190 55 3MB Read more
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and
374 106 109KB Read more
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's
134 34 3MB Read more
116 6 136MB Read more
Central Asia is a vast region separating and at the same time connecting the civilizations of the Near East, East Asia a
100 82 161MB Read more
How do we transmit or distribute knowledge, as distinct from generating or producing it? In this book John Greco examine
518 106 1MB Read more
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of r
812 126 7MB Read more
129 15 16MB Read more
Employers and servants in Kolkata reveal through their own stories how their evolving culture of servitude has produced,
106 84 5MB Read more
During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa h
164 77 11MB Read more