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Narayan Kirin |
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Titolo |
My family and other saints / / Kirin Narayan |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Women anthropologists - India - Mumbai |
Anthropology of religion - India - Mumbai |
Families - India - Mumbai |
Hinduism and culture - India - Mumbai |
Mumbai (India) Religious life and customs |
Mumbai (India) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Hook -- 1. Gods' Eyes -- 2. Crazy Saints -- 3. The Seven-Horned Mountain -- 4. Blind Blue Heavens, Pure Blue Light -- 5. Fused Doubles -- 6. Doorways -- 7. Gurus and Urugs -- 8. Mrs. Contractor's Eldest Unmarried Daughter -- 9. Conjunctions -- 10. The Moon Pearl -- 11. At the Border -- 12. Twin Goddess -- The Clasp |
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In 1969, young Kirin Narayan's older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone- especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother. A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family. As their beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin's sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son's spiritual quest as her own. Her Indian father, however, coins the term "urug"-guru spelled backward-to mock these seekers, while young |
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Kirin, surrounded by radiant holy men, parents drifting apart, and a motley of young, often eccentric Westerners, is left to find her own answers. Deftly recreating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, Narayan presents a large, rambunctious cast of quirky characters. Throughout, she brings to life not just a family but also a time when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest. "A lovely book about the author's youth in Bombay, India. . . . The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it."-Body + Soul "Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay."-William Grimes, New York Times |
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