Apffel-Marglin, Frederique <br/><br/>
Rhythms of life: enacting the world with the goddesses of Orissa/ 
Frederique Apffel-Marglin 
 - New Delhi:  Oxford University Press,  2008. 
 - xi, 292 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - (Oxford collected essays) .
<br/><br/>1. Introduction --<br/>Part I: Shakti: Regenerating the World through Illness, Death, and Female Sexuality --<br/>2. Types of Oppositions in Hindu Culture --<br/>3. Female Sexuality in the Hindu World --<br/>4. Who has the Potency? --<br/>5. Death and Regeneration: Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Narratives --<br/>6. Smallpox in two Systems of Knowledge --<br/>Part II: Deconstructing Modernist Categories: The 'Subaltern"; The 'Third World Woman'; The 'Sacred' History --<br/>7. Gender and the Unitary Self: Looking for the Subaltern in Coastal Orissa --<br/>8. Feminist Orientalism and Development --<br/>9. Secularism, Unicity, and Diversity: The Case of Haracandi's Grove --<br/>10. Rhythms of Life: Ritual, Time, and Historical Time --<br/>Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195694192 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Folk religion--Puri--India<br/>Devadasis<br/>Ritual
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4  / APF/R