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dc.contributor.authorSimmons, Caleb
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T19:37:15Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T19:37:15Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationHistory, Heritage, and Myth Simmons, Caleb, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 22, 216-237 (2018), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02203101en_US
dc.identifier.issn1363-5247
dc.identifier.issn1568-5357
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15685357-02203101
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/631038
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERSen_US
dc.relation.urlhttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685357-02203101en_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2018, Brill.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectHinduismen_US
dc.subjectgoddessen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.subjectmythen_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subjectMysoreen_US
dc.subjectChamundi Hillsen_US
dc.subjectheritageen_US
dc.titleHistory, Heritage, and Mythen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniv Arizonaen_US
dc.identifier.journalWORLDVIEWS-GLOBAL RELIGIONS CULTURE AND ECOLOGYen_US
dc.description.note24 month embargo; published online: 1 January 2018en_US
dc.description.collectioninformationThis 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.en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal accepted manuscripten_US
dc.source.journaltitleWorldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
dc.source.volume22
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage216
dc.source.endpage237


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