Asbestos and Salamander in India
Abstract The present paper, an homage to B. Laufer’s “Asbestos and Salamander” (1915), adds South Asia to the story of a remarkable Eurasian cultural meme meant to explain the presence of fire-proof cloth after its manufacturing technology was forgotten, namely that asbestos was the fur of a mythica...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 335-370 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sanskrit language
/ Scholarly publishing
/ Asbestos
/ Production of
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RelBib Classification: | ZA Social sciences |
Further subjects: | B
Purāṇa
B South Asian material culture B kāvya B Buddhism B Asbestos B agniśauca B Sanskrit lexicography |
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