[PDF.43hg] Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage

Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage

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 | #1228840 in Books |  1991-11-28 |  1991-11-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.38 x.53 x8.00l,.54 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| "Always Coming Home"|By Bob Newman|I've got to admit that for thorough research, William Sax deserves more than five stars. This is a helluva job. Not only did he learn a seldom-studied dialect of Hindi, but he translated long songs in it, even became able to sing them to incredulous locals. If you say that, well, most anthropologists learn the local language---it's more or| |"...Mountain Goddess is a powerful and compelling study of politics, gender and ritual in the central Himalayas, one that will surely inspire other attempts to explicate the politics of South Asian ritual and cultural interpretation."--History of Religions

Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddessis an anthropological study of this pilg...

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