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Living Banaras : Hindu religion in cultural context / edited by Bradley R. Hertel and Cynthia Ann Humes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Hindu studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 320 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585064164
  • 9780585064161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Living Banaras.DDC classification:
  • 294.5/3/09542 21
LOC classification:
  • BL1153.7.V36 L58 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Crossing the water: pilgrimage, movement and environmental scenography of the ramlila of Ramnagar / Richard Schechner -- Staring at frames till they turn into loops: an excursion through some worlds of tulsidas / Linda Hess -- What's taking place: neighborhood ramlilas in Banaras / Thomas Parkhill -- Hanuman and the moral physique of the Banarsi wrestler / Joseph S. Alter -- Religious division and the mythology of the past / Mary Searle-Chatterjee -- The monastic structure of Banarsi Dandi Sadhus / Dana W. Sawyer -- The goddess of the Vindhyas in Banaras / Cynthia Ann Humes -- Lolark Kund / Ratnesh K. Pathak and Cynthia Ann Humes -- Language choice, religion and identity in the Banarsi community / Beth Simon.
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Includes bibliographical references ([297]-307) and index.

Print version record.

Crossing the water: pilgrimage, movement and environmental scenography of the ramlila of Ramnagar / Richard Schechner -- Staring at frames till they turn into loops: an excursion through some worlds of tulsidas / Linda Hess -- What's taking place: neighborhood ramlilas in Banaras / Thomas Parkhill -- Hanuman and the moral physique of the Banarsi wrestler / Joseph S. Alter -- Religious division and the mythology of the past / Mary Searle-Chatterjee -- The monastic structure of Banarsi Dandi Sadhus / Dana W. Sawyer -- The goddess of the Vindhyas in Banaras / Cynthia Ann Humes -- Lolark Kund / Ratnesh K. Pathak and Cynthia Ann Humes -- Language choice, religion and identity in the Banarsi community / Beth Simon.

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