TY  - BOOK
AU  - Apffel-Marglin, Frederique
TI  - Rhythms of life: enacting the world with the goddesses of Orissa
SN  - 9780195694192
U1  - 305.4 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Folk religion
KW  - Puri
KW  - India
KW  - Devadasis
KW  - Ritual
N1  - 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
ER  -