How Long to Read Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds

How Long Does it Take to Read Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted extensive fieldwork, she begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts to the presence of cement images of Ravana in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of material agency as well as the parameters of religion more broadly. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program at https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8716.

How long is Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds?

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds aloud.

What Reading Level is Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds?

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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