Rhythms of life: enacting the world with the goddesses of Orissa/ Frederique Apffel-Marglin
Material type: TextSeries: (Oxford collected essays)Publication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xi, 292 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780195694192Subject(s): Folk religion -- Puri -- India | Devadasis | RitualDDC classification: 305.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 305.4 APF/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P03310 |
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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