Stories About Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess - Rilegato

Biardeau, Madeline; Hiltebeitel, Alf; Reiniche, Marie Louise; Walker, Tai

 
9780226045955: Stories About Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess
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ISBN 10: 0226045951 ISBN 13: 9780226045955
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2004

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Stories about Posts is the magnum opus of Madeleine Biardeau, one of the most influential Indologists of the twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, it connects her varied studies on the Sanskrit epics, the Hindu Goddess, Vedic sacrifice, rural India, and the interpretation of Hinduism.

After exploring several ethnographic facts that have escaped the notice of previous observers, Biardeau presents a variety of hunches, hypotheses, and insights building up to the provocative thesis of Stories about Posts: that the variations found in the contemporary cult of the Goddess--in both her royal and rural village aspects--reveal untraced regional histories of the Vedic sacrificial post, the yupa. Biardeau's work opens up new ways of thinking about Vedic sacrificial themes and elements as they recur in post-Vedic texts and iconographies. It also connects wayside stones in Maharashtra named after the buffalo to stones, posts, and people named after a so-called Buffalo King in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamilnadu.

A work of magnificent scholarship and fieldwork, Stories about Posts, in ways no previous work has attempted, much less accomplished, unravels much of the mystery surrounding contemporary Hindu ritual by connecting it to the ancient Sanskrit epics. As such, it will fascinate students of Indology, religious studies, and anthropology for years to come.


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Madeleine Biardeau is the directeur d'études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. She is the author of several books includingHinduism: The Anthropology of a Civilization. Alf Hiltebeitel is a professor of religion and human sciences at George Washington University.Marie-Louise Reiniche is a researcher at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, section des sciences religieuses. James Walker is also affiliated with the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

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Stories about Posts is the magnum opus of Madeleine Biardeau, one of the most influential Indologists of the twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, it connects her varied studies on the Sanskrit epics, the Hindu Goddess, Vedic sacrifice, rural India, and the interpretation of Hinduism.

After exploring several ethnographic facts that have escaped the notice of previous observers, Biardeau presents a variety of hunches, hypotheses, and insights building up to the provocative thesis ofStories about Posts: that the variations found in the contemporary cult of the Goddess in both her royal and rural village aspects reveal untraced regional histories of the Vedic sacrificial post, theyupa. Biardeau's work opens up new ways of thinking about Vedic sacrificial themes and elements as they recur in post-Vedic texts and iconographies. It also connects wayside stones in Maharashtra named after the buffalo to stones, posts, and people named after a so-called Buffalo King in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamilnadu.

A work of magnificent scholarship and fieldwork, Stories about Posts, in ways no previous work has attempted, much less accomplished, unravels much of the mystery surrounding contemporary Hindu ritual by connecting it to the ancient Sanskrit epics. As such, it will fascinate students of Indology, religious studies, and anthropology for years to come.

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Editore
Univ of Chicago Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226045951
ISBN 13 
9780226045955
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
358
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