Water and womanhood : religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra
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Water and womanhood : religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra
Oxford University Press, 1995
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- : paper
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Bibliography: p. 203-225
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780195091229
Description
Feldhaus examines the role of certain 'domestic' values in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India. Feldhaus draws both on written religious texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual materials gathered in the course of field work in India.
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: paper ISBN 9780195092837
Description
Feldhaus examines the role of certain 'domestic' values in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India. Feldhaus draws both on written religious texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual materials gathered in the course of field work in India.
Table of Contents
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction
Source Materials
1: Mountains, Rivers, and Siva
2: The Femininity of Rivers
3: Abundance
4: Untamed Natural Wealth
5: Sons and Sorrow
6: Modern River Goddess Festivals
7: Combating Evil
Maps
Appendix A: Water to the Gods
Appendix B: Images of Modern River Goddesses
Appendix C: Modern River Goddess Festivals
Bibliography
Index
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