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Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage
Mountain Goddess Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage
Author: William S. Sax
Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital jou...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195069792
ISBN-10: 019506979X
Publication Date: 11/28/1991
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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