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Columbia University Press 2011-05-31 Hardcover Very Good Missing jacket; otherwise in excellent condition & appears unread. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
ISBN10: 0231129181, ISBN13: 9780231129183, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover Missing jacket; otherwise in excellent condition & appears unread. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service. [New Haven, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
ISBN10: 0231129181, ISBN13: 9780231129183, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover no dj, some wear, still nice! Standard-sized. [Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
Hardback. New. Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and ...
ISBN10: 0231129181, ISBN13: 9780231129183, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover 0231129181 [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2011]
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