MOUNTAIN GODDESS: GENDER AND POLITICS IN A HIMALAYAN PILGRIMAGE William Sax 1991 1st ed Hardcover Fine 2 Copies Available (Sax, William S.)

	Item #: BK1368-6142 MOUNTAIN GODDESS: GENDER AND POLITICS IN A HIMALAYAN PILGRIMAGE William Sax 1991 1st ed Hardcover Fine 2 Copies Available By Sax, William S. Price: $4.99 List Price: $15.00 You Save $10.01 (67%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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New York, 1991, 1st edition. 235 pp. Original navy hardcover with gold stamped letters - no dust jacket issued. New. Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nanda devi 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 Nanda devi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddess is an anthropological study of this pilgrimage and the cult of Nanda devi, especially as they relate to local women's lives. The author shows how Nanda devi's appeal stems from the fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women, and that her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Drawing on formal Indian theories, verbal commentaries, songs, interviews, articles, propaganda, legends, pan-Indian Sanskrit liturgies, historical documents, and the author's remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage, this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion, Hinduism, and folklore, ritual, and gender studies.
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