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
Detailed Product Description
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Indian theories, verbal commentaries, songs, interviews, articles, propaganda, legends, pan-Indian Sanskrit liturgies, historical documents, and the author's remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage, this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion,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.
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category PLACE NAMES OF THE CANADIAN ALPS William Putnam, Glen Boles and Roger Laurilla 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available *By: Putnam, William, George Boles and Roger Laurilla* Price $3.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $31.01 (89%) *- Item # BK1221-83610* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CLIMBING ART MAGAZINE *By: THE CLIMBING ART MAGAZINE Pat Ament* Price $3.00 *- Item # JR156-* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HIMALAYAN JOURNAL 1991-1992, VOLUME 49 *By: Himalayan Club India* Price $24.95 *- Item # HJ1991* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart TRAVELER'S COMPANION: A COLLECTION FROM HARPER'S MAGAZINE 1991 Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available *By: Harper's Magazine* Price $2.99 ~ Regular $14.95, You Save $11.96 (80%) *- Item # BK591-6115* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart FOOTLOOSE IN THE HIMALAYA Mike Harding 1991 Paperback Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Harding, Mike* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $15.01 (75%) *- Item # OP1826B-1292* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart A FOR ANTARCTICA: FACTS AND STORIES FROM THE FROZEN SOUTH Meredith Hooper 1991 Paperback Very Good-Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Hooper, Meredith* Price $2.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $27.01 (90%) *- Item # PL6008-2392* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EVEREST RECONNAISSANCE: THE FIRST EXPEDITION OF 1921 Charles Howard-Bury, George Mallory 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine 3 Copies Available *By: Howard-Bury, Charles and George Mallory* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $45.00, You Save $25.01 (56%) *- Item # BK1901A-3493* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HERO IN DISGRACE: THE TRUE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH POLE, FREDERICK A. COOK Howard Abramson 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine-Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Abramson, Howard S.* Price $7.99 ~ Regular $29.95, You Save $21.96 (73%) *- Item # PL5892-3262* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart SPORT CLIMBING CONNECTION, SPORT CLIMBING, CONNECTION Price $2.00 *- Item # JR252* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ALPINE JOURNAL 1991-92 (UK) Volume 96 *By: Alpine Club, edited by Ed Douglas* Price $34.95 *- Item # AJ1991* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author. EVEREST: KANGSHUNG FACE. 1989 1st UK edition Hardcover DJ New SIGNED by Stephen Venables and Ed Webster *By: Venables, Stephen* Price $64.99 ~ Regular $150.00, You Save $85.01 (57%) *- Item # OP434AB-334* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart KARAKOL: CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN TOPOGRAPHIC MAP 1:500,000 Price $19.95 *- Item # MP257* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE FROSTY CAUCASUS: AN ACCOUNT OF A WALK THROUGH PART OF THE RANGE AND OF AN ASCENT OF ELBRUZ IN THE SUMMER OF 1874 Grove 1875 1st edition Hardcover Fine Leather wth Marbled Boards *By: Grove, Florence Crauford* Price $549.00 ~ Regular $750.00, You Save $201.00 (27%) *- Item # OP01716AB-334* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE GREAT PLATEAU: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF EXPOLORATION IN CENTRAL TIBET, 1903, AND OF THE GARTOK EXPEDITION 1904-1905. Rawling 2008 *By: Rawling, C. G.* Price $35.00 ~ Regular $85.00, You Save $50.00 (59%) *- Item # BK2316-11* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart AUGUSTO GANSSER FROM THE LIFE OF A GREAT EXPLORER Ursula Markus, Ursula Eichenberger 2012 1st edition *By: Ursula Markus, Ursula Eichenberger* Price $85.00 ~ Regular $90.00, You Save $5.00 (6%) *- Item # BK8943* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MOUNTAINS OF HEAVEN TRAVELS IN THE TIAN SHAN MOUNTAINS 1913 Charles Howard-Bury 1990 1st UK ed Paperback New *By: Howard-Bury, Charles and Marian Keaney (Editor)* Price $4.99 *- Item # OP404-559* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EVEREST: THE UNFINISHED ADVENTURE. Hugh Ruttledge 1937 1st UK edition Very Good *By: Ruttledge, Hugh.* Price $140.00 ~ Regular $200.00, You Save $60.00 (30%) *- Item # OP364B* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE OPENING OF TIBET: AN ACCOUNT OF LHASA AND THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE OF CENTRAL TIBET AND OF THE PROGRESS OF THE MISSION SENT THERE BY THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT IN THE YEAR 1903-4 Perceval Landon 1990 Hardcover DJ Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Landon, Perceval, Introduction by F. E. Younghusband* Price $9.95 ~ Regular $45.00, You Save $35.05 (78%) *- Item # BK958-2742* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE ABOMINABLE: A NOVEL OF MOUNT EVEREST Dan Simmons 2013 1st ed Hardcover DJ New *By: Simmons, Dan* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $29.00, You Save $24.01 (83%) *- Item # BK8837-614* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart WINDOW ON NEPAL Tibor Sekelj 1959 1st ed Hardcover No DJ Very Good *By: Sekelj, Tibor* Price $2.99 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $17.01 (85%) *- Item # OP3748-241* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart