Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition
by Shulman, David Dean
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair+/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0691064156
- ISBN 13
- 9780691064154
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About This Item
Princeton University Press, 1980. Book. Fair+. Hardcover. 0691064156 Approximately 2-3 inches of spine stitches showing through in gutter, with some looseness. Underlining/notations to a few pgs. South India is a land of many temples and shrines, each of which has preserved a local tradition of myth, folklore, and ritual. As one of the first Western scholars to explore this tradition in detail, David Shulman brings together the stories associated with these sacred sites and places them in the context of the greater Hindu religious tradition..
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- Title
- Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition
- Author
- Shulman, David Dean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0691064156
- ISBN 13
- 9780691064154
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- India, Anthropology, Tamil, Ritual, Marriage
- Bookseller catalogs
- One World-Many Cultures;
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