<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Feb 2 2007, 12:50 AM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Feb 2 2007, 12:50 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Another book, dusted off my library for a weekend reading...
<b>The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol</b>
by Malcolm Quinn
Will post relevant passages, if anyone so desires...
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Yes plz
1. on Page 27:
" ... Teutonic Kinship of the Trojans and Thrakians ', which shifted the axis of the Aryan myth away from India and towards Germany: the Trojans"
2. on Page 38:
" ... construction of the swastika. However, what also needs to be examined is the nature of the relationship between India and Germany which allowed this remythologising of the image to take place"
3. on Page 39:
" ... abstract flat pattern with British manufacturing methods. For Ruskin, however, both India and Industry represented soulless alienation from the `natural fact', and for him, as Partha Miller ... "
4. on Page 41:
" ... both India and Germany fail to achieve the necessary bourgeois `critical mass' which will propel them into the stream of history. In Germany, the development is perceived as uneven, in India it is seen ... "
5. on Page 42:
" ... maintaining the race idea could be discerned in his dynamically slanted swastika, an image which combined India with industry in the mass manufacture of the sign in a way which even Ruskin could not have foreseen"
6. on Page 43:
" ... Indus Valley civilisation came to a rather sudden end, which extinguished urbanism in India for a millenium"
7. from Back Matter:
" ... century. Said's argument does not take account of how this German version of India `at one remove' allowed greater scope for a romantic/ nationalist `ancestralisation' of the East, of a kind ... "
8. from Back Matter:
" ... 82 Schliemann, 1875, op. cit., p. xv. 83 Walter Liefer, India and the Germans: 500 Years of Indo-German Contacts, Bombay, 1977, p. 1. 84 ... "
9. from Back Matter:
" ... However, Wilson also cites Sir George Birdwood's claim in his Industrial Arts of India that the swastika was `the origin of the key pattern ornament of Greek and Chinese decorative art"
10. from Back Matter:
" ... Art', Art- forum, vol. 25: 90-8. Liefer, Walter (1977) <b>India and the Germans: 500 Years of Indo-German Contacts</b>, Bombay, Shakantala Publishing ... "
11. from Index:
"13 Hunger, U. 117 India 38-42 see also Hindu iconography Indo-European language 24, 26, 28, 47-9, 53; see also Aryan Islamic ... "
12. from Intro Pages:
" ... do not like the use of the word Svastika outside India. It is a word of Indian origin, and has its history and definite meaning in India"
13. from Intro Pages:
" ... Walker in 1939 (Plate 2) who asserted that the swastika was a symbol of the supreme god in ancient India, Anatolia, Europe, China and America, 'z as well as numerous texts published during ... "
14. from Intro Pages:
" ... examples can be provided of the swastika being used symbolically in a variety of cultural contexts from India to the Americas"
15. from Intro Pages:
"Swastikas figure on the oldest coinage in India ... Sanskrit svastika meant `so be it' or `amen.''' This account of the swastika lists some twenty or more examples in sixty- four lines of text. Such abundance ... "
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<b>The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol</b>
by Malcolm Quinn
Will post relevant passages, if anyone so desires...
[right][snapback]63915[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes plz
1. on Page 27:
" ... Teutonic Kinship of the Trojans and Thrakians ', which shifted the axis of the Aryan myth away from India and towards Germany: the Trojans"
2. on Page 38:
" ... construction of the swastika. However, what also needs to be examined is the nature of the relationship between India and Germany which allowed this remythologising of the image to take place"
3. on Page 39:
" ... abstract flat pattern with British manufacturing methods. For Ruskin, however, both India and Industry represented soulless alienation from the `natural fact', and for him, as Partha Miller ... "
4. on Page 41:
" ... both India and Germany fail to achieve the necessary bourgeois `critical mass' which will propel them into the stream of history. In Germany, the development is perceived as uneven, in India it is seen ... "
5. on Page 42:
" ... maintaining the race idea could be discerned in his dynamically slanted swastika, an image which combined India with industry in the mass manufacture of the sign in a way which even Ruskin could not have foreseen"
6. on Page 43:
" ... Indus Valley civilisation came to a rather sudden end, which extinguished urbanism in India for a millenium"
7. from Back Matter:
" ... century. Said's argument does not take account of how this German version of India `at one remove' allowed greater scope for a romantic/ nationalist `ancestralisation' of the East, of a kind ... "
8. from Back Matter:
" ... 82 Schliemann, 1875, op. cit., p. xv. 83 Walter Liefer, India and the Germans: 500 Years of Indo-German Contacts, Bombay, 1977, p. 1. 84 ... "
9. from Back Matter:
" ... However, Wilson also cites Sir George Birdwood's claim in his Industrial Arts of India that the swastika was `the origin of the key pattern ornament of Greek and Chinese decorative art"
10. from Back Matter:
" ... Art', Art- forum, vol. 25: 90-8. Liefer, Walter (1977) <b>India and the Germans: 500 Years of Indo-German Contacts</b>, Bombay, Shakantala Publishing ... "
11. from Index:
"13 Hunger, U. 117 India 38-42 see also Hindu iconography Indo-European language 24, 26, 28, 47-9, 53; see also Aryan Islamic ... "
12. from Intro Pages:
" ... do not like the use of the word Svastika outside India. It is a word of Indian origin, and has its history and definite meaning in India"
13. from Intro Pages:
" ... Walker in 1939 (Plate 2) who asserted that the swastika was a symbol of the supreme god in ancient India, Anatolia, Europe, China and America, 'z as well as numerous texts published during ... "
14. from Intro Pages:
" ... examples can be provided of the swastika being used symbolically in a variety of cultural contexts from India to the Americas"
15. from Intro Pages:
"Swastikas figure on the oldest coinage in India ... Sanskrit svastika meant `so be it' or `amen.''' This account of the swastika lists some twenty or more examples in sixty- four lines of text. Such abundance ... "
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