Title:

Temple priest with family (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Kutch District ; Gudjarat

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 caste Gosvami, whose profession is the care and maintenance of the shivaite temple. This type of temples were created 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 priest (babajis) with his wife and four children. Network of Hindu shivaite temples belonged to category over local 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 2, box 2, 00077

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 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:

Closed