David Dean Shulman

David Dean Shulman was an American and Israeli linguist, poet, anthropologist, peace activist, pacifist and orientalist (born 1949). He was born at Waterloo.

Also recorded as David Shulman.

David Dean Shulman in brief

Born
1949
Known for
linguist, poet, anthropologist, peace activist, pacifist, orientalist, indologist and writer
Place of birth
Waterloo
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Recognition and collections

David Dean Shulman received Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Israel Prize, The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture and Rothschild Prize.

Catalogued works

31 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1992 to 1999.

Śrīnātha : The Poet who Made Gods and Kings. Shiṿah be-yaʻar ha-oranim. להיות חופשי. Sipuro shel ʻets ha-Tamarhindi. Peraḳim ba-shirah ha-Hodit. Ta'ayush. Karmic passages. Meditations on authority. Self-Surrender, Peace, Compassion, and The mission of the goose. When God is a customer. Untying the knot. Masked ritual and performance in South India. Classical Telugu poetry. Tiḳṿah marah. A poem at the right moment. Dream cultures. [Gilgul] =. Self and self-transformation in the history of religions. Sansḳriṭ. Songs of the Harsh Devotee. Spring, heat, rains. Tamil temple myths. The wisdom of poets. The hungry God. The king and the clown in South Indian myth and poetry. Rashi. More than real. Language, ritual and poetics in ancient India and Iran. Dream cultures : explorations in the comparative history of dreaming / edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa., dated 1999, held by Wellcome Collection. Syllables of sky : studies in South Indian civilization / edited by David Shulman., dated 1995, held by Wellcome Collection. Symbols of substance, court and state in Nāyaka period Tamilnadu / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam., dated 1992, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

3 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

<i>The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry</i>. David Dean Shulman, The Journal of Religion, 1989. The Ambivalence of Power in South Indian Images of the King<i>The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry</i>. David Dean Shulman, History of Religions, 1988. David Dean Shulman. Tamil: A Biography. pp. 416. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts,and London 2016, ISBN 978-0674059924. $ 35 / £ 28.95 / € 31.50, Cracow Indological Studies, 2020.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 12 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

David Dean Shulman studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of London. the recorded working language is English and Hebrew.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Employment is recorded with Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Membership is recorded of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Israel Prize and The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture.

Chronology

  1. 1949David Dean Shulman born at Waterloo.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “David Dean Shulman”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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    Wikidata, structured authority record Q619390: David Dean Shulman

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