Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Rhythms of Life

Enacting the World with the Goddesses of Orissa

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays focus on two sets of rituals; those in and around the temple of Jagannath in Puri mostly through the lens of the rituals of the Devadasis and the other, the festival of Raja Parba carried out at Bali Haracandi some 20 km south of Puri, celebrating the menses of the earth, the sea, the goddess and women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 168mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780195694192
• ISBN-10: 0195694198
• Artikelnr.: 23605042

Autorenporträt

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts

Inhaltsangabe

* 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? (with David Hudson);
* 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 (with Suzanne Simon);
* 9. Secularism, Unicity, and Diversity: The Case of Haracandis Grove;
* 10. Rhythms of Life: Ritual, Time, and Historical Time;
* Index