ANTH301 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week2: Polytheism, Performativity

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH301
• Professor: Kalpana Ram

Document Summary

Name of reading: c. j fuller 1992 (cid:858)wo(cid:396)ship(cid:859) i(cid:374) the camphor flame popular hinduism and. In the context of this reading it focuses on polytheism in the hindi culture. Anthropomorphic: having human characteristics instead of animal characteristics (see theriomorphic above). Darshana: viewing images of a deity at a temple for a vision or sight: state in a few sentences, the key themes of this work. The (cid:272)o(cid:396)e the(cid:373)e a(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d this pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k is the idea of (cid:862)puja(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ship i(cid:374) hi(cid:374)du ho(cid:373)es around india. It describes the physical and emotional experience of a person participating puja and the processes involved in puja. I learnt about the significance of images in hinduism and how they are used in hinduism. I learnt that there are two main types of sculptures theriomorphic which usually takes an animal form and anthromorphic which usually takes a human form.