Title:

Temple priest with family (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kutch District ; Gujarat

Date issued/created:

[1992]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). The temple priest of the village sanosara - the first on the right - with the family. He belongs to the caste Gosvami, whose profession is the care and maintenance of the shivaite temple. These types of churches were formed in the villages of Gujarat in the late nineteenth century. They were part of the internal colonization of border areas of Hinduism and Islam. In the picture the priest (babaji) with his wife and four children. Network of shivaite Hindu temples belonged to categories supra Hinduism. Picture taken against the walls of the temple

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; temple priest with family

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 1, 0053

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open