The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public
Das, Samir Kumar
9789811602627
ISBN 13: 9789811602627
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The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public

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Chapter 1. Debi Durga From Idol to Icon (Mrinmoyee Deb).- Chapter 2. Memorialising Tradition, Constructing Heritage: Work, Life and Social Transformation among the Kumbhakars (Shoma Choudhury-Lahiri).- Chapter 3. In Search of the Prototype - An Art Historical Enquiry into the Evolving Form of Protimas' in Kumartuli, West Bengal (Soujit Das).- Chapter 4. Kumartuli Durga as Heritage: a Study in Iconography (Debdutta Gupta).- Chapter 5. Durga Puja, Kitsch and the Politics of Popular Entertainment (Pradeep Kumar Bose).- Chapter 6. Re-imagining Kumartuli- the cultural politics of artisanal production and the shaping of urban imaginaries (Madhumita Mazumdar).- Chapter 7. Durga Puja in Glasgow (John Reuben Davies).- Chapter 8. The Rhyme of Color and Clay (Rong Matir Panchali).

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