Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, Michael J. Altman
Scholars working on Hindu traditions in the United States often train primarily as South Asianists rather than as Americanists, but Michael J. Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893 shows that there is merit in the other approach as well. Altman engages concept...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2018
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Nidān
Year: 2018, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-69 |
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| Summary: | Scholars working on Hindu traditions in the United States often train primarily as South Asianists rather than as Americanists, but Michael J. Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893 shows that there is merit in the other approach as well. Altman engages concepts and categories like "Hindu" and its archaic variants that are of central importance to South Asianists, but does it in a way that is rigorously grounded in American religious history. The result is a study of American Orientalism that will be of interest to anyone whose work engages with Hinduism in the popular imagination or as a critical term in scholarly discourse in the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2018.1 |