Rhythms of Life: Enacting the World with the Goddesses of Orissa
The essays focus on two sets of rituals; those in and around the temple of Jagannath in Puri mostly through the lens of the rituals of the Devadasis and the other, the festival of Raja Parba carried out at Bali Haracandi some 20 km south of Puri, celebrating the menses of the earth, the sea, the goddess and women.
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The essays focus on two sets of rituals; those in and around the temple of Jagannath in Puri mostly through the lens of the rituals of the Devadasis and the other, the festival of Raja Parba carried out at Bali Haracandi some 20 km south of Puri, celebrating the menses of the earth, the sea, the goddess and women.
1 Introduction Are Goddesses Real? 1Pt. I Shakti: Regenerating the World through Illness, Death, and Female Sexuality2 Types of Oppositions in Hindu Culture 313 Female Sexuality in the Hindu World 544 Who has the Potency? Dennis Hudson Hudson, Dennis Frederique Apffel-Marglin Apffel-Marglin, Frederique 745 Death and Regeneration: Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Narratives 856 Smallpox in two Systems of Knowledge 107Pt. II Deconstructing Modernist Categories: The 'Subaltern"; The 'Third World Woman'; The 'Sacred' History7 Gender and the Unitary Self: Looking for the Subaltern in Coastal Orissa Purna Chandra Mishra Mishra, Purna Chandra Frederique Apffel-Marglin Apffel-Marglin, Frederique 1598 Feminist Orientalism and Development Suzanne L. Simon Simon, Suzanne L. Frederique Apffel-Marglin Apffel-Marglin, Frederique 2119 Secularism, Unicity, and Diversity: The Case of Haracandi's Grove 22910 Rhythms of Life: Ritual, Time, and Historical Time 253Index 276
