Rhythms of life : enacting the world with the goddesses of Orissa / Frederique Apffel-Marglin
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- 4548809
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- Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique
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- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008
- xi, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 9780195694192
- 0195694198
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- Oxford collected essays.
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On the Devadāsīs and local folk religion, Raja as celebrated in Purī, India; articles; a couple co-authored.
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- 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.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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