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Sacred and profane : unusual customs and strange rituals
- Title
- Sacred and profane : unusual customs and strange rituals / G.S. Sachdeva.
- Author
- Sachdeva, G. S. (Gurbachan Singh), 1938-
- Publication
- New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 260 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- A living deity : goddesses and womanhood -- Marry a dead person : unusual marriages and strange customs -- Human sacrifice with safety measures : sacrifices and penances -- Feast to the monkeys : of stratified societies, festivals and prasads -- Hurling obscenities in front of a deity : celebrating with abandon -- Tale of platonic love that bestows boons : miracles, myths and boons -- Sadasuhags : the cross-dressers : veneration of the oddities and peculiar practices.
- ISBN
- 9789353885151
- 9353885159
- 9789353885168 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1197754299
- 1197754299
- SCSB-14543584
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries