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    Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics : Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits (2009)
    Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226340517 , 9780226340555 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 576 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9780226340555
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 294.5/923046
    Keywords: Draupadī ; Mahābhārata
    Abstract: Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics-the Mahabharata and the Ramayana-continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he revea...
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    The ritual of battle : Krishna in the Mahābhārata (1976)
    Ithaca [usw.] : Cornell Univ. Pr.
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    ISBN: 0801409705
    Language: English
    Pages: 368 S
    Series Statement: Symbol, myth, and ritual series
    DDC: 294.5/923
    RVK:
    EU 2010
    Keywords: Krishna ; Mahābhārata Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Mahābhārata ; Krischna
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    Hair : its power and meaning in Asian cultures (1998)
    Albany : State University of New York Press
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    ISBN: 0585056722 , 9780585056722
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 297 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Hair
    DDC: 391.5095
    Keywords: Hair Social aspects ; Asia ; Hair Erotic aspects ; Asia ; Hairstyles History ; Asia ; Ornamental hairwork History ; Asia ; Hairstyles History ; Ornamental hairwork History ; Hair Erotic aspects ; Hair Social aspects ; Hairstyles History ; Ornamental hairwork History ; Hair Erotic aspects ; Hair Social aspects ; Manners and customs ; Ornamental hairwork ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Beauty & Grooming ; Hairstyles ; History ; Hair ; Erotic aspects ; Hair ; Social aspects ; Asia Social life and customs ; Asia ; Asia Social life and customs ; Asia Social life and customs ; Asia ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 1.Introduction: Hair Tropes /Alf Hiltebeitel1 --2.Hair and Society: Social Significance of Hair in South Asian Traditions /Patrick Olivelle11 --3.Hairy Barbarians, Furry Primates, and Wild Men: Medical Science and Cultural Representations of Hair in China /Frank Dikotter51 --4."Long Black Hair Like a Seat Cushion": Hair Symbolism in Japanese Popular Religion /Gary L. Ebersole75 --5.Bound Hair and Confucianism in Korea /Sarah M. Nelson105 --6.Politics of the Queue: Agitation and Resistance in the Beginning and End of Qing China /Weikun Cheng123 --7.Hair Like Snakes and Mustached Brides: Crossed Gender in an Indian Folk Cult /Alf Hiltebeitel143 --8.Living Ghosts: Long-Haired Destitutes in Colonial Hong Kong /James L. Watson177 --9.Cutting the Fringes: Public Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship Laws /Anne Allison195 --10.Cuts and Culture in Kathmandu /Julia J. Thompson219 --11.The Disappearance of the Oiled Braid: Indian Adolescent Female Hairstyles in North America /Barbara D. Miller259 --12.Afterword: Hair Power /Barbara D. Miller281.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record , 1.Introduction: Hair Tropes
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    The churning of the epics and Purāṇas : proceedings of the Epics and Purāṇas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference (2018)
    New Delhi : Dev Publishers & Distributors
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    ISBN: 9381406855 , 9789381406854
    Language: English , Sanskrit
    Pages: ix, 452 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 294.5923046
    RVK:
    EU 1045
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    EU 2000
    Keywords: Mahābhārata Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Puranas Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Mahābhārata Congresses ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Puranas Congresses ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Konferenzschrift ; Mahābhārata ; Purāṇas
    Note: Mit Literaturangaben und Index , Auf dem Umschlag: "This volume contains 20 papers emerging from the the Epics and Purāṇas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference (New Delhi, January 2012)"
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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