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Rhythms of life : enacting the world with the goddesses of Orissa

Title: Rhythms of life : enacting the world with the goddesses of Orissa / Frederique Apffel-Marglin.
Author: Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique.
Publication: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description

xi, 292 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

On the Devadāsīs and local folk religion, Raja as celebrated in Purī, India; articles; a couple co-authored.

Series Statement

Oxford collected essays

Uniform Title

Oxford collected essays

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Shakti: Regenerating the World through Illness, Death, and Female Sexuality -- 2. Types of Oppositions in Hindu Culture -- 3. Female Sexuality in the Hindu World -- 4. Who has the Potency? -- 5. Death and Regeneration: Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Narratives -- 6. Smallpox in two Systems of Knowledge -- Part II: Deconstructing Modernist Categories: The 'Subaltern"; The 'Third World Woman'; The 'Sacred' History -- 7. Gender and the Unitary Self: Looking for the Subaltern in Coastal Orissa -- 8. Feminist Orientalism and Development -- 9. Secularism, Unicity, and Diversity: The Case of Haracandi's Grove -- 10. Rhythms of Life: Ritual, Time, and Historical Time -- Index.

ISBN

9780195694192
0195694198

LCCN

2008331359

OCLC

ocn226166452
226166452
SCSB-1498369

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library