10 | Cultural Ecology in the Literary Cultures of South Asia
Supposing that environment is decisive in the process of developing cultural phenomena of a given region, this panel focuses on the role of interdependence of nature and culture in production of literary texts and other products of culture from the perspective of cultural ecology methods.
Convenors:
· Ewa Dębicka-Borek Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland)
· Ilona Kędzia Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland)
Timeslots:
· 07/29 | 11:00-12:30 UTC+2/CEST
Long Abstract
The environment is one of the factors decisive for cultural choices and development of the particular cultural phenomena and traditions. This panel gathers researchers working on mutual relations between culture and nature in given regions of South Asia, in multidisciplinary perspective of cultural ecology. Assuming that a region encompasses differentiated local cultures with the vast production of literature and art , the proposed topics can be approached from a perspective of cultural ecology of literature (e.g. Zapf 2016), but also, in a broad sense, in view of cultural ecology methods that underline the interdependence of nature and culture; emphasize the role of local substratum in development of science (e.g. Siddha medicine); explore fictionalizing the physical space (encompassing all kind of natural phenomena) by the means of transforming real-world landscapes into the settings in fiction (e.g. māhātmya genre), etc. In particular (but not restricted), we encourage scholars to view the region as a space (1) of the mutual relations between nature and culture that (2) gave rise to literary texts and other products of culture seen as ecological phenomena, i.e. as grounded in two axioms of ecological thought: interconnectedness and diversity, or, in other words, in terms of a specific cultural ecosystem mirrored in the net of its textual traditions, where the literature and other artistic forms ‘developed in coevolution and competition with other forms of cultural production” (Zapf 2016).
Presentations
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07/29 | 09:00-09:20 UTC+2/CEST
Along the River, Towards God – Kaveri and Pañcaraṅga Shrines (Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz) -
07/29 | 09:20-09:40 UTC+2/CEST
The Corporeal Relationship Between Men and Cattle in the Vedic Prose (Barbora Sojkova) -
07/29 | 09:40-10:00 UTC+2/CEST
From the Fields to the Throne: Keḷadi-Ikkeri Rulers and the Culture of Nature (Lidia Sudyka) -
07/29 | 10:00-10:20 UTC+2/CEST
Crafting of Ornaments and Its Accessories in Folk-Tales and Folk-Songs Among the Nagas (Iris Odyuo) -
07/29 | 11:00-11:20 UTC+2/CEST
Medicine Within the Cultural Ecosystem. Some Remarks on Tamil Siddha Medico-Alchemical Literature From Cultural-Ecological Perspective. (Ilona Kędzia) -
07/29 | 11:20-11:40 UTC+2/CEST
The Country and the City: The Cultural Ecology of the Kāñcippurāṇam (Jonas Buchholz) -
07/29 | 11:40-12:00 UTC+2/CEST
Cultural Ecology of the Hunting Festival in Ahobilam (Ewa Dębicka-Borek)