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GB 891 CF-CF/4
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Date(s)
- 1977 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Christopher John Fuller
(1949-)
Biographical history
Christopher John Fuller is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1976, Fuller started conducting field research in the great temple of Madurai in Tamilnadu, southeast India, which is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Minakshi and her husband Sundareshwara (Shiva). Fuller has also researched and written extensively on popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the Tamil Brahmans, the history of Indian anthropology, and other topics.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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This file contains published articles written by Christopher Fuller on the Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple and its priests, including:
* Typed manuscript of 'Royal Divinity and Human Kingship in the Festivals of a South Indian Temple', published in _South Asian Social Scientist_, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1985 (Note: the donor deposited the manuscript version as he has noted that the published version contains editorial errors).
* 'The Navaratri festival in Madurai', by C. J. Fuller and Penny Logan, published in _Bulletin of SOAS_, Vol. XLVIII, Part 1, 1985.
* 'The King, the law and the priests in a South Indian Temple', published in _Puruṣārtha_ No. 8, 1985.
* 'Brahman Temple Priests and Hindu Revivalism in Contemporary Tamilnadu', published in _South Indian Studies_ No. 1, 1996.
* 'Orality, Literacy and Memorization: Priestly Education in Contemporary South India', published in _Modern Asian Studies_ Vol. 35, No. 1, 2001.
* 'The renovation ritual in a south Indian temple: the 1995 kumbhabhiseka in the Minaksi Temple, Madurai', published in _Bulletin of SOAS_, Vol. 67, No. 1, 2004.
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