Louise Allison Cort

Purna Chandra Mishra

Book & DVD. The first to describe in detail a community of potters working for the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, eastern India, this book explores the role of the temple servant and how it affects potters' understanding of their work and of themselves. As a pilgrimage centre of national importance, supported by the patronage of successive regional dynasties and by fervent popular belief, the Jagannatha Temple required earthenware in great quantities for the creation of distribution of the sacred food that is an integral feature of daily ritual and pilgrimage. Several hundred potters participate as temple servants in maintaining the temple's ritual cycle by performing their divinely assigned task. This study observes the potters' technical prowess, sustained by devotion, but also examines the tensions within their relationships to more powerful temple servants and authorities. The role of the potter as temple servants is at once glorious, as demonstrated by texts and personal interpretations of the potters' divinely-appointed service, and pathetic, as shown in the brutality of caste-based hierarchy and cash-based exchange penetrating the modern temple's daily operations. The accompanying DVD shows the potters at work and records their skills and products as well as the annual festival that celebrates their role as temple servants.

Temple Potters of Puri

Prita Pant

Sushil K. Mishra

This book presents selected proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Processing and Design (ICAMPD 2019). The contents highlight latest research in next-generation mechanical systems design, thermal and fluid systems design, materials and smart manufacturing processes, and industrial engineering. Some of the topics covered include smart materials, materials processing and applications, smart machinery and machine design, system dynamics and simulation, biomimetics, energy systems, micro- and nano-scale transport, automotive engineering, advance material characterization and testing, and green and sustainable manufacturing. Given the scope of the contents, this book can be of interest to students, researchers as well as industry professionals.

Select Proceedings of ICAMPD 2019

Advances in Mechanical Processing and Design

Muhamad Mat Noor

Hoang Anh Tuan

The International Conference on ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ICAMIE –2020) aims to solidify knowledge of sister branches of research on Mechanical Engineering applied to Industry, Health Sectors, Energy Sector, Agricultural Sector etc. Mechanical Engineering is a core branch of Engineering with its own peculiarities and very diverse areas of action. (ICAMIE –2020) will widen the scope of bringing together innovators, researchers and industries under a common goal – creating, evaluating, implementing and benefiting from innovations in the areas of engineering applications It will thus support innovative projects and bring benefits to all involved participants. Participants from Universities, Institutes, Associations, Companies, Consultancies, R&Ds etc. from India and abroad will be invited. The aim of (ICAMIE –2020) is to be one of the most influential channels for transferring innovative ideas from academia to industry thereby these ideas may start to generate consultancy, projects and collaborations. The novel idea to conduct this type of conference is to discuss social and industrial problems and try to find a way to resolve their solutions by advanced methods and methodologies like soft computing techniques, Multi-criteria decision making algorithms, Internet of Things, technologies, Artificial intelligence, Robotics etc. (ICAMIE –2020) will be successful being the multidisciplinary conference of its first kind and aims to be one of the most influential channels transferring innovative ideas from academia to industry thereby these ideas may start to generate consultancy, projects and collaborations.

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