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Author : Himangsu Mohan Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Savara, the Snake Charmer written by Himangsu Mohan Ray and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On social life and customs of Savara (Indic people), with reference to Midnapore District.
Author : Miranda Eberle Shaw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691127583
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Goddesses of India written by Miranda Eberle Shaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Miriam Robertson
Publisher : Arun Joshi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Snake Charmers written by Miriam Robertson and published by Arun Joshi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details The Present Way Of Life Of The Kalbelias Of Rajasthan Whose Occupation Is Snake Charmers. Describes Their Religious Orientation As Naths, Their Work As Healers, Spirit Mediums, Entertainers, Beggars, And Labourers. Also Describes Thier System Of Dispute Settlement, Brideservice, Marriage, Death And Inheritance. Has 9 Chapters And 4 Appendices And Illustration.
Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190290560
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls written by June McDaniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487652
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives written by June McDaniel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy family, a good husband, and a happy life. They are also performed so that the performers (bratinis) develop such virtues as devotion, humility, and compassion.This book presents data from fieldwork, along with brata stories, songs, poems, and ritual activities. It discusses Bengali folk religion, offers an example of ritual worship in folk Hinduism, and surveys a variety of bratas. The author analyzes the similarities and differences among these rituals in low-caste village life and in high-caste Hindu tradition, and notes that the development of these rituals involves a form of continuing divine revelation with women as the primary transmitters. Bratas act to maintain traditional Hindu values, but also emphasize the power of women, whose virtues can save their husbands from hell worlds and their families from disasters.
Author : Ann Whitehead Nagda
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805064995
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Snake Charmer written by Ann Whitehead Nagda and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vishnu dreams of being a snake charmer like his father. But his father thinks that education is more important, so Vishnu must stay home. There are plenty of games and chores to keep everyone busy, and then there's school, which is taught outdoors. Full-color illustrations.
Author : Carmen Brandt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643906706
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The 'Bedes' of Bengal written by Carmen Brandt and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Bengali speaking regions of Bangladesh and India, the Bengali term bede today often evokes stereotypical imaginations of itinerant people. Of highly contested origin, the term has in the last two hundred years become the pivotal element for categorising and portraying diverse service nomads of the Bengal region. Besides an analysis of their portrayal in ethnographic and Bengali fictional literature, this book traces causes, reasons, and processes that have led to an increasing perception of these so-called `Bedes' as being ethnically different from the sedentary majority population.
Author : K. Chandra Sekhar
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1609764250
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Shiva's Own Story written by K. Chandra Sekhar and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2011 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Brihakatha', or Lord Shiva's narrative to his wife Parvati, is featured in Gunadhya's epic composition 'Katha Sarita Sagara' in Sanskrit. Somadeva's adaptation retains the storyline, with Lord Shiva substituting for Lord Kubera, the God of Wealth. C H Tawney, blending pure Hindu mythology with Buddhist and tantric beliefs, translated the story into English as The Ocean of a Story, which runs 12 volumes and includes footnotes. Shiva's Own Story is a condensed version of Tawney's work. The setting of the stories is India in the 10th and 11th centuries, when the country was composed of many small kingdoms and fiefdoms. There was no dearth of monarchs with dynastic ambitions. The king was usually advised by an intelligent and devoted Brahman minister. The heir apparent, the crown prince, had a circle of friends, mostly sons of the king's ministers, who became part of the cabinet when the prince became king. Intrigue was rife and matrimonial alliances were often a strategy to expand the kingdom. In a country where illiteracy is still formidable, storytelling is a means of promoting and propagating religious and moral culture.
Author : Indian Anthropological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society written by Indian Anthropological Society and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Āśutosha Bhaṭṭācārya
Publisher : Calcutta : Firma KLM
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Sun and the Serpent Lore of Bengal written by Āśutosha Bhaṭṭācārya and published by Calcutta : Firma KLM. This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snake Charmer written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Snake charmer, probably India.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Man and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swapan Kumar Pramanick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Explorations in Anthropology written by Swapan Kumar Pramanick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations In Anthropology: P.K. Bhowmick And His Collaborative Research Works Provides An Accessible And Comprehensive Introduction To The Vast Subject Matter Of Social Anthropology. This Book Is Not Merely A Collection Of Several Articles But Also An Exploration Of Diverse Discourses Arising In Socio-Political, Economic, Cultural, Religious And Administrative Disciplines That Constitute The Defining Characteristics Of Today S Social Ethos. Scholars With Their Adequate Skilled Knowledge And Scientific Bent Of Mind Have Tried To Explore The Real Truth Of Anthropological Science Dealing With The Problems Related To Man, Society And Culture, Which Are Unique, Versatile And Are Of Lasting Relevance In The Cultural History Of Contemporary Society. Thus This Book Provides A Wide Variety Of Reflections On The Existing Society-From The Indigenous Tribal Groups To The Contemporary Problems Of Modern Times. Distinguished Scholars Belonging To Various Branches Of Social Science Have Selected Their Problems In Accord With Their Professional Subjects. Various Articles With Trend-Setting Features Have Embodied Clear Visions Of Their Research Projects And Tried To Explore What Anthropology Can Do. The Editors Of This Book Adopt A Novel Approach By Analyzing Social Problems And Dealing With Social Themes Studied By Different Scholars Under Prof. P.K. Bhowmick, An Original Anthropologist Making Research Endeavours Throughout The Second-Half Of The Twentieth Century. Finally, This Book Has Been Designed To Focus On The Manifold Challenges Faced By The Scholars In Their Works. All The Articles Complied Here Attest To The Authentic Field-Based Enquires Of These Scholars In Their Academic Pursuits.
Author : K. S. Singh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Scheduled Castes written by K. S. Singh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kumar Suresh Singh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book People of India written by Kumar Suresh Singh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Man in India written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
