The Play of the Gods: Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town
Ákos Östör
This book, first published in 1980, is a seminal study of Indian sacred festivals, appears here in a new, expanded and illustrated edition. The two related festivals considered here - Durgapuja, in honor of the Goddess Durga, and Gajan, in honor of the Lord Siva - are the most popular and most complex of Bengali rituals, involving elaborate preparation and wide and ever-increasing participation. The detailed description and interpretation of the rituals presents an inside view of society and remains the only complete ethnographic account of a major ritual cycle in India.
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Yıl:
1980
Yayımcı:
University of Chicago Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
241
ISBN 10:
0226639541
ISBN 13:
9780226639543
Dosya:
PDF, 123.83 MB
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english, 1980