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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451691103321

Autore

Glucklich Ariel

Titolo

The sense of adharma [[electronic resource] /] / Ariel Glucklich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-280-52689-0

0-19-802448-7

1-4294-0566-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

181.4

294.5

Soggetti

Dharma

Adharma (Hinduism)

Hindu symbolism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: On Understanding Culture Through the Body; 1. Images and Symbols of Dharma; 2. The Duration of Images in Time; 3. Why Rivers Purify (And Only Bad Witches Are Ugly); 4. Dermatology and Cosmology; 5. Boundaries in Space and Time; 6. Passage to Marriage-The Dharma Agent; 7. Playing The Field: Adultery as Claim Jumping, by Wendy Doniger; 8. Thieves and Dharma in the Story Literature; 9. The Adharmic Force of Punishment (Danda); Conclusion: Back to the Body; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a study of the contrasting Hindu concepts of adharma (chaos) and dharma (order). The author uses a synthesis of phenomenological and anthropological approaches to study the structure of the imagination that produces such an apparently contradictory viewpoint.