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UNINA9910955172603321 |
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Autore |
Glucklich Ariel |
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Titolo |
The sense of adharma / / Ariel Glucklich |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-774161-4 |
1-280-52689-0 |
0-19-802448-7 |
1-4294-0566-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dharma |
Adharma (Hinduism) |
Hindu symbolism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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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Previously issued in print: 1994. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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