Ancient Traditions and Modern Challenges: South Asian Studies Today

• Autorzy: Karttunen Klaus
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In order to show the mutual importance and usefulness of classical and modern Indology to each other, the author presents a series of cases, where ancient things are present (and often reinterpreted and modified) in modern India, in fields such as religion and philosophy, social hierarchy, popular entertainment, language and linguistics and traditions of scholarship.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Indology; South Asia; Sanskrit; Hinduism

• Wydawca: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Czasopismo: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Rocznik: 2016
• Numer: 40
• Strony: 13-20

Twórcy

autor

Karttunen Klaus

• University of Helsinki, Finland

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.40.02