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History, Heritage, and Myth Simmons, Caleb, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 22, 216-237 (2018), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02203101Rights
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
This essay examines popular and public discourse surrounding the broad, amorphous, and largely grassroots campaign to "Save Chamundi Hill" in Mysore City. The focus of this study is in the development of the language of "heritage" relating to the Hill starting in the mid-2000s that implicitly connected its heritage to the mythic events of the slaying of the buffalo-demon. This essay argues that the connection between the Hill and "heritage" grows from an assumption that the landscape is historically important because of its role in the myth of the goddess and the buffalo-demon, which is interwoven into the city's history. It demonstrates that this assumption is rooted within a local historical consciousness that places mythic events within the chronology of human history that arose as a negotiation of Indian and colonial understandings of historiography.Note
24 month embargo; published online: 1 January 2018ISSN
1363-52471568-5357
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Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1163/15685357-02203101