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Guilty Males and Proud Females
Fabrizio Ferrari
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Description for Guilty Males and Proud Females
Hardcover. A study of the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. It explains that one of the most fascinating aspects of the gajan is its approach to gender. It is of interest to scholars of South Asian religions, folklore, and gender studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRLF; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
"Guilty Males and Proud Females" is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy - the marriage of a god and goddess - and a recreation of the life-cycle of earth. As Fabrizio Ferrari explains, one of the most fascinating aspects of the gajan is its approach to gender. The central deity of the gajan is a goddess identified with the earth. To please such a goddess, male devotees must acknowledge the pain they inflict towards the female ... Read more
"Guilty Males and Proud Females" is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy - the marriage of a god and goddess - and a recreation of the life-cycle of earth. As Fabrizio Ferrari explains, one of the most fascinating aspects of the gajan is its approach to gender. The central deity of the gajan is a goddess identified with the earth. To please such a goddess, male devotees must acknowledge the pain they inflict towards the female ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497521
SKU
V9781906497521
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About Fabrizio Ferrari
Fabrizio Ferrari is a lecturer in the Department of Religion at the University of Chester. He is the author of Ernesto de Martino on Religion: The Crisis and the Presence and the editor of Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing, among other books.
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