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Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism

Alf Hiltebeitel - Religion - 1989 - 512 pages
The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and ...
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Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi Among Rajputs, Muslims ...

Alf Hiltebeitel - History - 1999 - 584 pages
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and ...
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When the Goddess was a Woman: Mah?bh?rata Ethnographies - Essays by Alf ...

Alf Hiltebeitel - Religion - 2011 - 673 pages
Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mah?bh?rata, the R?m?ya?a, and the south Indian cults of Draupad? and K?tt???avar along with new articles written ...
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Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses

Alf Hiltebeitel, Kathleen M. Erndl - Religion - 2000 - 292 pages
American and Indian scholars of religion, anthropology, women's studies, and psychology look at the complex relationship between the living worship of female divinities and ...
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Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King

Alf Hiltebeitel - Religion - 2001 - 380 pages
The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have ...
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Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims ...

Alf Hiltebeitel - Religion - 2009 - 575 pages
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and ...
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Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King

Alf Hiltebeitel - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 376 pages
The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have ...
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Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures

Alf Hiltebeitel, Barbara D. Miller, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Women's Studies Program Barbara D Miller - Social Science - 1998 - 318 pages
An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts.
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