Research Catalog

Title

The sense of adharma / Ariel Glucklich.

Author

Glucklich, Ariel.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Description

xiv, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Adharma (Hinduism)
• Dharma
• Hindu symbolism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: On Understanding Culture Through the Body. Dharma. Adharma -- 1. Images and Symbols of Dharma. Smrti as Remembrance. The Symbol and the Image. Mahavrata Images. The Structure of Images. Indian Images -- 2. The Duration of Images in Time. Conceptions of Time in India. Temporal Images - Method. Time in the Ramayana. Time in the Mahavrata Ritual. Musical Time -- 3. Why Rivers Purify (And Only Bad Witches Are Ugly). Conceptual Approaches to Pollution and Sin. Bathing (Snana). The Phenomenology of Bathing - A Gestalt Approach. Isomorphism. Good Forms in Perception. The Phenomenal Ego. Perception and Proprioception. The Meaning of Bathing -- 4. Dermatology and Cosmology. Apala and Indra. The Symbolism of the Apala Sukta. Skin Therapy. Dermatology. Interpretation. Ksetriya and Jaundice. Nonsymbolic Analysis of Disease. Animal Skins (Carman) -- 5. Boundaries in Space and Time. Dharma Metaphors. Perception and Forms in Space. Being and Becoming - Time and Space Reversed.
• The Picture Frames of Tribal India. House Walls. Temple Walls. Fences. Doors. Crossing Boundaries -- 6. Passage to Marriage - The Dharma Agent. The Marriage Ritual. The Marriage as a Rite de Passage. Sociological and Cosmological Meaning of Passage. The Wedding in Verbal Formulas. The "Person" in Passage. The Perception of Passage. The Dharma Agent: Intention by Extension -- 7. Playing The Field: Adultery as Claim Jumping / Wendy Doniger. The Appeal of the Human Lover: The Kamasutra. The Wife's Reasons for Committing Adultery. The Wife's Reasons for Not Committing Adultery. The Lover's Reasons for Committing Adultery. The Lover's Reasons for Not Committing Adultery. The Appeal of the Divine Lover: Bhakti Texts. The Appeal of Theft: The Romance of Adultery. Breaching the Boundary: The Husband's Nightmare -- 8. Thieves and Dharma in the Story Literature. Thieves and Kings. The Theft of Identity. Achievements of the Best in the Trade. Idiot Thieves. Brahmin Thieves - A Digression on Dharma Itself.
• Divine Thieves: The Theft of Soma, Vedas, Amtra -- 9. The Adharmic Force of Punishment (Danda). Vertical Space. Danda in Nature. Danda in Society. Danda in the Sacrifice. Danda in Mythology. Danda and the Goddess -- Conclusion: Back to the Body.

ISBN

0195083415

LCCN

92045768

OCLC

• 28028823
• ocm28028823

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries