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The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
de Obeyesekere, Gananath
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226616029
- ISBN 13
- 9780226616025
- Librería
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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E-091: University of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1984. 648 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Pattinigoddess, virgin, wife, and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheonhas been worshiped in Sri Lanka and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship and a stunning range of theoretical perspectives in this work, the most detailed analysis of a single religious complex in South Asian ethnography (and possibly in all of anthropology). E-091; 9.8 X 7.1 X 1.6 inches; 648 pages .
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- Librería
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 60137
- Título
- The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
- Autor
- Obeyesekere, Gananath
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226616029
- ISBN 13
- 9780226616025
- Editorial
- University of Chicago Press
- Lugar de publicación
- E-091
- Fecha de publicación
- 1984
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