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@article{ART002533251},
author={William B Noseworthy},
title={The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2015},
volume={7},
number={1},
pages={107-137},
doi={10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107}

TY - JOUR
AU - William B Noseworthy
TI - The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2015
VL - 7
IS - 1
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 107
EP - 137
SN - 2092-738X
AB - This article utilizes interdisciplinary methods in order to critically review the existing research on the Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar. In the past, Po Inâ Nâgar has too often been portrayed as simply a “local adaptation of Uma, the wife of Śiva, who was abandoned by the Cham adapted by the Vietnamese in conjunction with their conquest of Champa.” This reading of the Po Ina Nagar narrative can be derived from even the best scholarly works on the subject of the goddess, as well as a grand majority of the works produced during the period of French colonial scholarship. In this article, I argue that the adaption of the literary studies strategies of “close reading”, “surface reading as materiality”, and the “hermeneutics of suspicion”, applied to Cham manuscripts and epigraphic evidence—in addition to mixed anthropological and historical methods—demonstrates that Po Inâ Nâgar is, rather, a Champa (or ‘Cham’) mother goddess, who has become known by many names, even as the Cham continue to re-assert that she is an indigenous Cham goddess in the context of a majority culture of Thành Mẫu worship.
KW - Hinduism;Localization;Goddess worship;Champa civilization;Vietnam;Cham
DO - 10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107
ER -

William B Noseworthy. (2015). The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar. SUVANNABHUMI, 7(1), 107-137.

William B Noseworthy. 2015, "The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.7, no.1 pp.107-137. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107

William B Noseworthy "The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar" SUVANNABHUMI 7.1 pp.107-137 (2015) : 107.

William B Noseworthy. The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar. 2015; 7(1), 107-137. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107

William B Noseworthy. "The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar" SUVANNABHUMI 7, no.1 (2015) : 107-137.doi: 10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107

William B Noseworthy. The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar. SUVANNABHUMI, 7(1), 107-137. doi: 10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107

William B Noseworthy. The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar. SUVANNABHUMI. 2015; 7(1) 107-137. doi: 10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107

William B Noseworthy. The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar. 2015; 7(1), 107-137. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107

William B Noseworthy. "The Mother Goddess of Champa: Po Inâ Nâgar" SUVANNABHUMI 7, no.1 (2015) : 107-137.doi: 10.22801/svn.2015.7.1.107