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• W348773508 abstract "Hindus often say that there can be no town or city without a temple. Similarly, no house is complete without a domestic mandir, or temple. A mandir enlightens the house and the minds of those living in the house. In my study of the interior decoration of Hindu homes in United States, I encountered a domestic altar in every home, decorated in bright colors and placed in a sacred space. This essay describes the significance, placement, and decoration of the Hindu mandir. Mandir means place of worship in Hindi, the national language of India. A mandir can refer to a public building where people go to worship, like a church, but also to domestic altars dedicated to Hindu gods that people place in their homes. My research is based in a residential community called Ravens Crest in Plainsboro, New Jersey, which is located in the New York metro area near Princeton, New Jersey. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ravens Crest is a large complex of one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. Many in Ravens Crest work in New York City. They prefer to live in Plainsboro, however, because they point out that it has good schools. Plainsboro has the second largest community of people from India in United States, topped only by Edison, another town in New Jersey. According to the 2000 census, Plainsboro has a population of 20,215, with 16.97% describing themselves as having Indian ancestry. Women I met in Ravens Crest said that, in the past ten years, the population of Indians has increased in Plainsboro and especially in Ravens Crest, as many people from India with information technology backgrounds have come to the United States on temporary projects. Indians in Plainsboro like living in Ravens Crest, because it is economical and offers good storage space. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My husband, Suraj, and I arrived in Plainsboro in May 2010 from Salt Lake City, Utah. Although I was pursuing a Ph.D. in folklore at Indiana University, I moved to Salt Lake City after completing coursework because Suraj was doing his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. We moved to Plainsboro for the summer because I wished to conduct dissertation fieldwork on Hindu interior decoration in the United States, and Suraj had been offered a summer internship with Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton. We chose to live in Ravens Crest because it has a large population of Indians, and we were able to sign a three-month lease. We did not have a car during our stay in Plainsboro, so I conducted a large part of my research in Ravens Crest. My interest in interior decoration began with my adviser Henry Glassie at Indiana University, who has done considerable work on vernacular architecture. According to Glassie, interior decoration is increasingly important today because people no longer design the exterior of the houses in which they live, so they turn to interior decoration to express themselves. This is especially true for Hindu immigrants who buy--or, in the case of my informants, rent--homes built for an American lifestyle. Analyzing interior decoration in Ravens Crest therefore offers an opportunity to understand the life and culture of the Hindu community in the United States. The Significance of the Hindu Mandir When I first began my research at Ravens Crest, I struggled to find potential informants whose homes I would be able to observe. In time, I learned that there are small parks within the community where people come in the evening with their children. At one such park--close to my apartment and also adjacent to the community swimming pool and tennis courts--I met several women to whom I explained my study. These women were young mothers between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five and had been living in United States between two to fifteen years. India is a very diverse country. It has twenty-eight states, and each state has its own language, food, and dress, with cultural practices varying further between North and South India. …" @default.
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• W348773508 date "2010-09-22" @default.
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• W348773508 title "Hindu Domestic Mandirs: Home Temples in Greater New York" @default.
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