This book accompanies the exhibition Unearthed at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (22 June - 29 August 2010). The volume is intended not just as an exhibition catalogue but as a meditation on excavation and archaeological endeavour. The authors invite the reader, spectator, and exhibition viewer to take up the job of archaeologist, wrestling with unexpected evidence, opinion and comparanda. The book explores previous interpretations of figurines and dogu, along with modern work by artists, photographers, and philosophers who have struggled with the paradoxes inherent in making miniature worlds and of expressing the human body in art, as well as figurines and dogu-like objects from the modern world. Once you have sifted these evidences and worked through the array of comparisons, you will be in a position whereby you can make your own decision about what dogu and figurines do, about how they worked, and indeed, about how todays archaeologists should study them.
1. Defining the Svara Bearing Unit in the siksavedanga literature: Unmasking a veiled debate. (Giovanni Ciotti)
2. Puranic transformations in Cola Cidambaram: The Cidambaramahatmya and the Sutasamhita. (Whitney Cox)
3. Unfuzzying the fuzzy. The distinction between rasas and bhavas in Bharata and Abhinavagupta. (Daniele Cunio)
4. A Contribution of Vedanta to the history of Mimamsa: Prakasatman’s interpretation of “verbal effectuation” (sabdabhavana). (Hugo David)
5. Married women and courtesans: Marriage and women’s room for manoeuvre as depicted in the Katha-sarit-sagara. (Iris Iran Farkhondeh)
6. Towards a new edition of the corpus of Pallava inscriptions. (Emmanuel Francis)
7. Did Mimamsa authors formulate a theory of action? (Elisa Freschi)
8. Trajectories of dance on the surface of theatrical meanings: a contribution to the theory of rasa from the fourth chapter of the Abhinavabharati. (Elisa Ganser)
9. Dravya as a Permanent Referent: The Potential Sarvastivada Influence on Patanjali’s Paspasahnika. (Alastair Gornall)
10. Rituals in the Mahasahasrapramardanasutra. (Gergely Hidas)
11. The Lingodbhava Myth in Early Saiva Sources. (Nirajan Kafle)
12. Yantras in the Buddhist Tantras – Yamaritantrasand Related Literature. (Kenichi Kuranishi)
13. Saiva Siddhanta Sraddha: Towards an evaluation of the socio-religious landscape envisaged by pre-12th century sources. (Nina Mirnig)
14. Constituents of Buddhahood as Presented in the Buddhabhumisutra and the 9th Chapter of the Mahayanasutralamkara: A Comparative Analysis. (Ayako Nakamura)
15. The gannachandas in the Indian metrical tradition. (Andrew Ollett)
16. Anatmata, Soteriology and Moral Psychology in Indian Buddhism. (Antoine Panaioti)
17. Paramarthika or aparamarthika? On the ontological status of separation according to Abhinavagupta. (Isabelle Ratie)
18. Thy Fierce Lotus-Feet: Danger and Benevolence in Mediaeval Sanskrit Poems to Mahisasuramardini-Durga. (Bihani Sarkar)
19. Minor Vajrayana texts II. A new manuscript of the Gurupancasika. (Peter-Daniel Szanto)
20. Can we infer unestablished entities? A Madhva contribution to the Indian theory of inference. (Michael Williams)
