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Negotiating Cultural Identity

This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as

living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts

in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and

are constantly interacting.

Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists, numismatists and historians,

the essays in this volume

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Provide insights into the ways people in the past, and in the present,

imbue places with meanings;

Examine the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval

period in South Asia;

Trace complex patterns of historical development of a temple or a

town, to understand ways in which such spaces often become a means

of constructing the collective past and social traditions.

With a new chapter on continuity and change in the sacred landscape of the

Buddhist site at Udayagiri, the second edition of

Negotiating Cultural Identity

will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of archaeology, social

history, cultural studies, art history and anthropology.

Himanshu Prabha Ray

is Hony. Professor, Distant Worlds Programme,

Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. She is former Chairperson,

National Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi, India, and

former Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

India. Her research interests include Maritime History and Archaeology

of the Indian Ocean, the History of Archaeology in South and Southeast

Asia and the Archaeology of Religion in Asia. Her recent books include

Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia

; edited volume,

Decolonising

Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Transnational

;

Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections

; Susan

Verma Mishra and Himanshu Prabha Ray,

The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces:

The Temple in Western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE

;

The Return

of the Buddha: Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

; and

The Archaeology of

Seafaring in Ancient South Asia

Archaeology and Religion

in South Asia

Series Editor: Himanshu Prabha Ray, Ludwig Maximilian University,

Munich, Germany; former Chairperson of the National Monuments Authority,

Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and former Professor, Centre for

Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Editorial Board:

Gavin Flood, Academic Director, Oxford Centre for Hindu

Studies; Jessica Frazier, Academic Administrator, Oxford Centre for Hindu

Studies; Julia Shaw, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London;

Shailendra Bhandare, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Devangana Desai,

Asiatic Society, Mumbai; and Vidula Jayaswal, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi, former

Professor, Banaras Hindu University

This series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, reflects

on the complex relationship between religion and society through new per-

spectives and advances in archaeology. It looks at this critical interface to

provide alternative understandings of communities, beliefs, cultural sys-

tems, sacred sites, ritual practices, food habits, dietary modifications, power,

and agents of political legitimisation. The books in the Series underline the

importance of archaeological evidence in the production of knowledge of

the past. They also emphasise that a systematic study of religion requires

engagement with a diverse range of sources such as inscriptions, iconogra-

phy, numismatics and architectural remains.

Negotiating Cultural Identity

Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

Edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray

Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India

History, Theory, Practice

Daniel Michon

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit

www.routledge.com/

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Negotiating Cultural Identity

Landscapes in Early Medieval South

Asian History

Second Edition

Edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray

Second edition published 2020

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