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Gender in Gandhāran Art
Representations and Interactions in the Buddhist Context (1st – 4th centuries CE)
Gandhāran art developed around the first century BCE till the fourth century CE in parts of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been the focus of intense scholarly debates in both Classical and South Asian Studies for many decades. In this book Ashwini Lakshminarayan offers for the first time a specialized study on gender using Gandharan material culture and convincingly proposes new readings of visual culture beyond Eurocentric and postcolonial interpretations.
This book sets the stage with a detailed overview of the contexts in which Gandhāran art was located in Buddhist sites by analysing the gendered use of space and the gender and activities of donors and administrators. At its core the book gives prominence to the stone reliefs of Gandhāra and examines how male and female bodies are represented how they interact and how gender symbolised ideals and values.
With an important comparative overview of the Gandhāran artistic production and new illustrations this work is indispensable for all those interested in the study of gender in ancient art the interaction between Graeco-Roman and Indic cultures and the development of the early Buddhist artistic tradition in South and Central Asia that also shaped Buddhist visual culture eastwards in China.
Art, Architecture and Religion Along the Silk Roads
Art Architecture and Religion Along the Silk Roads will be volume 12 in the Silk Road Studies series. It has been produced by the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University Australia and edited by Ken Parry Senior Research Fellow Department of Ancient History Macquarie University. It consists of selected papers from the 2004 conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies. The volume contains 14 articles of 350 pages with 40 illustrations and covers topics relating to Ancient Chorasmia Sogdia and China Buddhist and Manichaean art Middle Iranian manuscripts and Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan Nestorian Christianity and contemporary Islam Silk Road clowns and headcoverings of Central Asia. The collection highlights the range and depth of Australasian scholarship on Inner Asia and demonstrates that there are still many unexplored aspects of Silk Road Studies.