Interdisciplinary approaches engaging with popular culture and entertainments, anywhere on the continuum from sacred to secular, that can include popular and public events and spectacles such as, but not limited to, festivals and carnivals, rituals, processions, protests, sporting events and concerts, and political rallies.
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited The Passover Seder as an Exercise in Piagetian Education Theory in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 days, 3 hours ago
This paper focuses on two elements of the Passover Seder ritual and their connection to Piagetian education theory. After outlining Piaget’s theory of genetic epistemology and its implications for education theory, it focuses on Sigel’s distancing theory, which touts question asking as a tool for presenting information to students. This paper arg…[Read more]
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited World Religions and the Noahide Prohibition of Idolatry in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Although the prohibition of avodah zarah (literally, “strange/foreign worship,” but more loosely translated as “idolatry”) is included in both the Torah’s 613 mitzvos for Jews and in the seven Noahide laws, many authorities maintain that the exact parameters of the prohibition differ when applied to Jews versus when applied to non-Jews. There is…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Mahishasur A people’s hero in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
This is the English edition of the book ‘Mahishasur: Ek Jannayak’. The book searches for a hero who has been ever-present in the memories, traditions, festivals, and celebrations of a majority of the people of India but who the dominant culture of the country has given the image of a villain. Recently, the search for this people’s hero triggered a…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited पेरियार के प्रतिनिधि विचार in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
हिंदी में पेरियार का मूल लेखन और जीवनी उपलब्ध नहीं थी। सामाजिक आंदोलनों व अकादमियों में जो नई हिंदी भाषी पीढ़ी आई है, वह ‘नास्तिक पेरियार’ से तो खूब परिचित है और उनके प्रति उसमें जबर्दस्त आकर्षण भी है, लेकिन यह पीढ़ी उनके विचारों के बारे में कुछ सुनी-सुनाई, आधी-अधूरी बातें ही जानती है। वस्तुतः उसने पेरियार को पढ़ा नहीं है।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited धर्म और विश्वदृष्टि- पेरियार ई. वी. रामासामी in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
यह किताब ई.वी. रामासामी नायकर ‘पेरियार’ (17 सितम्बर, 1879—24 दिसम्बर, 1973) के दार्शनिक व्यक्तित्व से परिचित कराती है। धर्म, ईश्वर और मानव समाज का भविष्य उनके दार्शनिक चिन्तन का केन्द्रीय पहलू रहा है। उन्होंने मानव समाज के सन्दर्भ में धर्म और ईश्वर की भूमिका पर गहन चिन्तन-मनन किया है। इस चिन्तन-मनन के निष्कर्षों को इस किताब के विविध लेखों मे…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर एक जननायक in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित पुस्तक “महिषासुर एक जननायक” का उद्देश्य यह स्पष्ट करना है कि आखिर महिषासुर नाम से शुरू किया गया यह आन्दोलन है क्या? इसकी आवश्यकता क्यों पड़ी? इसके निहितार्थ क्या हैं? इस पुस्तक में प्रश्न उठाया गया है कि जब असुर एक प्रजाति है तो उसकी हार या उसके नायक की ह्त्या का उत्सव किस सांस्कृतिक मनोवृत्ति का परिचायक…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर मिथक व परंपराएं in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
महिषासुर से संबंधित बहुजन समाज के मिथकों व परंपराओं , पौराणिक मिथकों और आधुनिक युग में गढे़ गए मिथकों के अर्थों को खोलने वाली इस पुस्तक का संपादक प्रमोद रंजन ने किया है। इस पुस्तक में पहली बार महिषासुर शहादत/स्मरण दिवस की विस्तृत सैद्धांतिकी भी प्रस्तुत की गई है तथा इस संबंध में उठने वालो सभी सवालों के उत्तर प्रस्तुत किये गये हैं।…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited हिमाचल का साहित्यिक परिदृश्य: शिमला डायरी in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
शिमला डायरी हिंदी पत्रकार और लेखक प्रमोद रंजन के संस्मरणों की पुस्तक है, जिसका केंद्रबिंदु साहित्यिक गतिविधियां हैं। यह पुस्तक 21वीं सदी की शुरुआत में पत्रकारिता के नैतिक पतन की कहानी भी कहती है। हिमाचल प्रदेश पर केंद्रित इस पुस्तक में तत्कालीन राजनीति की भी झलक है।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited ‘हिंदी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’, ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावन’ व ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’: नई सांस्कृतिक-साहित्यिक दृष्टि की प्रस्तावना in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
बहुजन साहित्य और संस्कृति की अवधारणा ने पिछले कुछ वर्षों में आकार लेना शुरू किया है। अभी हाल (2016) में आए प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित तीन संकलन- ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावना’, ‘हिन्दी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’और ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’- बहुजन साहित्यिक-सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन की प्रस्तावना और अवधारणा को सामने रखते हैं और इसे पल्लवित-पुष्पित तथा विकसित क…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Providing a voice to the dispossessed majority – Interview with Pramod Ranjan in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
In this interview with The Hindu, Pramod Ranjan shared his view on Dalits and OBCs in Indian newsrooms, Phule-Ambedkarism, Bahujan literature, Dalit literature, Mahishasura Movement and the role of myth in a caste-based society.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Unearthing history by reinterpreting myths and traditions ( Book Review By Ish Mishra) in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Brahmanical history is based on myths. It neither has been constructed chronologically nor is factually correct. It has eclipsed the reality with a cobweb of myths. To establish a new creed, established dogmas must be disproven. Ish Mishra reviews ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’ :
The book Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Ma…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Recently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Travelogue: Mahishasur in Mahoba in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The scope of the traditions related to Mahishasur is vast. There is a memorial of him in Bundelkhand, preserved by the Archaelogical Survey of India. Khajuraho’s world-famous temples also have carvings of Mahishasur.
On 9 October 2014, the police had raided the office of Forward Press. Some people associated with Hindu organizations had a c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited यात्रा वृतांत: महोबा में महिषासुर in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
यह बुंदेलखंड स्थित महोबा का यात्रा संस्मरण है।
इसमें लेखक पौराणिक मिथक महिषासुर से संबंधित स्थलों की खोज में निकलता है।
वर्ष 2011 में जवाहर लाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी के शोधार्थियों द्वारा महिषासुर को दलित, पिछड़े और आदिवासियों का पौरणिक नायक के रूप से प्रचारित किए जाने के बाद हंगामा खड़ा हो गया था। लेखक उस समय एक पत्रिका में प्रबंध-संपादक के रूप म…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited Mahishasur in Mahoba-1 in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Mahishasur was the mythological hero of the Bahujan communities of India. According to D.D. Kaushambi, Mahishasur’s realm was Mahoba in Bundelkhand. In connection with the research for my book, I reached Mahoba on 2 October 2015. Mahishasur’s memories still survive in the folk traditions of Mahoba. He is known as Maikasur, Kaaras Dev, Gwal Bab…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Four years of a cultural movement in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
We wrote this report in December 2015. In this report, we have tried to bring out the ideology of the organisers of Mahishasur Day, and their strategy for cultural-social change.
When, on 25 October 2011, a handful of students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrated Mahishasur Martyrdom Day for the first time, no one could have i…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited Bahujan discourse puts JNU in the crosshairs in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
If we closely study the recent string of incidents in JNU while keeping their background in mind, we will realize that the Bahujan-Left unity had set alarm bells ringing in the RSS camp. To grasp this better, we will have to revisit the first Mahishasur Martyrdom Day, organized by the All India Backward Students’ Forum (AIBSF) in JNU in October 2…[Read more]
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Stefanie Samida deposited Reenacted prehistory today Preliminary remarks on a multidisciplinary research project in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Historical and archaeological topics have been very popular for many years. This is witnessed by a variety of events and developments: well- attended exhibitions, so-called “medieval mar- kets”, an ongoing success of historical documentaries, a booming market of specialised books and magazines, as well as star-studded historical movies. The pap…[Read more]
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Stefanie Samida deposited Performing the Past: Time Travels in Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months ago
Historical and archaeological topics have been very popular for many years. This is witnessed by a variety of events and developments, as for example by time travel formats on television as well as by such performances at historic sites or at open-air museums. These historical performances and affective adoptions – bodily and sensual experiences t…[Read more]
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Frans Prasetyo deposited reformasi dikorupsi : Indonesia under Jokowi in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
As Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian populist president Jokowi began his second term in autumn 2019, he finds himself confronted by a new generation radicalised by the converging crises of militarism, agrarian dispossession, environmental destruction and corruption.
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