The paintings have the purpose of attracting the deity's presence during the celebrations in his or her honour and a blessing on the family members of the house where they are painted.
liminalia is a light editorial formula dealing with visual anthropology and anthropology of art in the field of oriental studies. Fragments of thoughts, ink and images, intentionally placed in a borderline.
On the field of Southern Asian studies she is the author of La Montagna Divina. Iconografia e mito (Vajra Publications Ev-K2 CNR Publications, Kathmandu, 2007) and Chintamani: il gioiello degli dei, in S. Macioce (editor), "Ori nell'arte" (Logart Press, Rome, 2007).
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