The sense of adharma [[electronic resource] /] / Ariel Glucklich
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| Autore: |
Glucklich Ariel
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| Titolo: |
The sense of adharma [[electronic resource] /] / Ariel Glucklich
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 181.4 |
| 294.5 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Dharma |
| Adharma (Hinduism) | |
| Hindu symbolism | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sense of adharma |
| ISBN: | 0-19-774161-4 |
| 1-280-52689-0 | |
| 0-19-802448-7 | |
| 1-4294-0566-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777625203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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