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Sacrificed wife/sacrificer's wife : women, ritual, and hospitality in ancient India /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press ©1996Description: xvi, 340 Pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195096630
  • 0195096622
  • 9780195096620
  • 9780195096637
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4/0954 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1742 .J36 1996
Contents:
Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Sacrificed wife/sacrificer's wife: the myth of Manu's cups -- Part III: The wife in ritual -- A. The wife and other ritual actors -- B. Situating the wife in ritual -- C. Sexuality and fertility-symbolic representations -- D. Sexuality and fertility-the asvnamedha -- E. Sexuality and fertility-"negative" representations -- F. Hospitality and exchange relations: the soma sacrifice -- Part IV: The anxieties of hospitality -- A. Introduction-oghavati and ahalya -- B. Hospitality and hostly perils -- C. Manu's cups revisited I: the cow, the wife and the power of the guest -- D. Manu's cups revisited II: the vocabulary of hospitality -- E. Exploited guests and reluctant receivers -- Part V: Women and marriage -- A. Marriage and exchange -- B. Marriage by capture -- C. Maidenly self-determination -- Part IV: Finale
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and indexes

Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Sacrificed wife/sacrificer's wife: the myth of Manu's cups -- Part III: The wife in ritual -- A. The wife and other ritual actors -- B. Situating the wife in ritual -- C. Sexuality and fertility-symbolic representations -- D. Sexuality and fertility-the asvnamedha -- E. Sexuality and fertility-"negative" representations -- F. Hospitality and exchange relations: the soma sacrifice -- Part IV: The anxieties of hospitality -- A. Introduction-oghavati and ahalya -- B. Hospitality and hostly perils -- C. Manu's cups revisited I: the cow, the wife and the power of the guest -- D. Manu's cups revisited II: the vocabulary of hospitality -- E. Exploited guests and reluctant receivers -- Part V: Women and marriage -- A. Marriage and exchange -- B. Marriage by capture -- C. Maidenly self-determination -- Part IV: Finale

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