The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
Obeyesekere, Gananath
From Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. 4to. University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1984. 648 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Pattini goddess, virgin, wife, and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon has been worshiped in Sri Lanka and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship and a stunning range of theoretical perspectives in this work, the most detailed analysis of a single religious complex in South Asian ethnography (and possibly in all of anthropology). E-091; 9.8 X 7.1 X 1.6 inches; 648 pages. Seller Inventory # 60137
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Title: The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, E-091
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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