02498nam 2200625Ia 450 991077762520332120230421045031.00-19-774161-41-280-52689-00-19-802448-71-4294-0566-X(CKB)1000000000465843(EBL)273201(OCoLC)476015253(SSID)ssj0000244129(PQKBManifestationID)11226859(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244129(PQKBWorkID)10171240(PQKB)11389662(Au-PeEL)EBL273201(CaPaEBR)ebr10279084(CaONFJC)MIL52689(OCoLC)466431647(MiAaPQ)EBC273201(EXLCZ)99100000000046584319921222d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sense of adharma[electronic resource] /Ariel GlucklichNew York Oxford University Press19941 online resource (285 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508341-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.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; IndexThis 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.DharmaAdharma (Hinduism)Hindu symbolismDharma.Adharma (Hinduism)Hindu symbolism.181.4294.5Glucklich Ariel1525611MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777625203321The sense of adharma3866336UNINA