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Lazzaretti, Vera: Here and Elsewhere: Transposed Deities, Substitute Pilgrimages and Geographic Imagination in North India, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025 (Ethno-Indology: Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals, Volume 17). https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1528

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07/01/2025

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Vera Lazzaretti

Here and Elsewhere

Transposed Deities, Substitute Pilgrimages and Geographic Imagination in North India

Ethno-Indology: Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals

Here and Elsewhere offers a grounded study of crucial modes of sanctification and imagination of Hindu geographies: spatial transposition and substitute pilgrimage. It looks at the local representatives of the pan-Indian jyotirliṅgas in Varanasi (Banaras) and the urban pilgrimage connected to them by combining interpretative analysis of glorifications (māhātmyas) with in-depth ethnographic research. This enables the author closely to observe the strategies that a variety of social actors employ to knit together and reproduce connections between places of the here and the elsewhere, and to locate deities and themselves within multiple spatial dimensions, both lived and imagined.

Vera Lazzaretti (Ph.D. in Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Turin, 2013) is a Senior Researcher at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) in Lisbon, where she coordinates the South Asian Studies Circle and the research group Circulation and Placemaking.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Front matter
I-IV
Dedication
V
Contents
VII-VIII
Acknowledgements
IX-X
Introduction
XI-XVI
Note on the Spelling of Indian Words
XVII
1 Sanctification of Territory and Divine Transpositions
An Introduction
1-16
2 Finding One's Way in Banaras
Between Imagined Spaces and Lived Places
17-36
3 The Divine Group and Its Relocation
Textual Sources and Religious Cartography
37-48
4 Ethnographies of Transposed Places
49-74
5 Local Urban Pilgrimages
Lists, Routes and Deviations
75-95
6 Supremacy of the Transposed Place and Production of Locality
Kāśī’s Kedār
97-123
References
125-138
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