Tales of justice and rituals of divine embodiment [electronic resource] : oral narrative from the central Himalayas / Aditya Malik.
2016
BL2016.K86 M35 2016eb
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Title
Tales of justice and rituals of divine embodiment [electronic resource] : oral narrative from the central Himalayas / Aditya Malik.
Author
Malik, Aditya, author.
ISBN
9780190231903 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 295 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199325092 doi
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BL2016.K86 M35 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
294.5095451
Summary
This work is about ideas of justice in South Asia. It is the result of extensive fieldwork on oral and written narratives, testimonies, and rituals relating to Goludev, the God of Justice, in the Central Himalayan region of Kumaon.
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This work is about ideas of justice in South Asia. It is the result of extensive fieldwork on oral and written narratives, testimonies, and rituals relating to Goludev, the God of Justice, in the Central Himalayan region of Kumaon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Thinking about justice and being human
God of justice
Ideas of justice
Writing intimacy
Possession, alterity, modernity
Transformations
Dancers.
God of justice
Ideas of justice
Writing intimacy
Possession, alterity, modernity
Transformations
Dancers.