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Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Asia Past & Present) Paperback – Illustrated, April 1, 2012

by Padma Kaimal (Author)
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Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis is a book about the lost home, the new homes, and the journeys in between of nineteen sculptures that now reside in at least twelve separate museums across North America, Western Europe, and South India. After piecing together what these goddesses and their former companions might have meant when they were together in tenth-century South India, Kaimal traces them into the hands of private collectors and public museums as these objects became more thoroughly separated from each other with each transaction. In the process of export and purchase, and in the hostile as well as loving receptions these sculptures received within South Asia, she fi nds that collecting and scattering were the same activity experienced from different points of view.
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    314 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Association for Asian Studies
  4. Publication date
    April 1, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    8.4 x 0.7 x 10.9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0924304677
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0924304675
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Since 1988, Padma Kaimal has taught courses on the history of Asian art at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, surrounded by family, friends, and good colleagues. Her research questions common assumptions about art from India, and the Tamil region in particular. Did kings build the only architecture that matters? Did sculptures tell only one story at a time? Did buildings? Did people in the tenth century have no concept of individual identity? Are the boundaries of India’s modern states meaningful for mapping the subregions delineated by tenth-century architecture? How did women of the tenth century get the power to patronize temple construction? Are museums the problem, the solution, or both to debates on cultural property? Is collecting art the opposite of scattering it? Professor Kaimal’s essays have appeared in Third Text, Source, The Art Bulletin, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Artibus Asiae, Archives of Asian Art, and Ars Orientalis.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Association for Asian Studies; Illustrated edition (April 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0924304677
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0924304675
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.7 x 10.9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for people interested in Goddess statues, and how they end up in museums.
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Yogini statues like the ones featured in this book have been around for centuries, but until recently they were not very well known or understood; I have an art book written a few decades ago (I picked it up used) that mis-identifies one of them and gives a history of it that is now known to be inaccurate. I've seen similar things in other older books and museum catalogs. This book is very accurate! It goes into great detail about where the statues come from, and how they got to where they are today. It is educational, but also very entertaining. If you read it you'll have a much better understanding of how museums, art collectors an and business people have, as the title says, scattered Goddesses around the world. Not just these, but probably many others you might see on any trip to a major museum. I've seen a couple of these statues, in The British Museum in London and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and I had very little knowledge of them till I read this book. There are many other Yogini Goddess statues still in India, and I hope more information about them becomes available. This book sets a good example for how to research and write a book about a kind of spirituality that is now being rediscovered and is becoming more relevant to many people. And it has lots of useful pictures and graphics.
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