Death and Life-Giving Waters: Cremation, caste, and cosmogony in karmic traditions
Terje OestigaardIn this original work, the author aims to develop a synthetic perspective for enhancing the understanding of the roles death and life-giving waters have in the constitution of society and cosmos in karmic traditions through a material culture study of death and funeral practices as cultural, ritual, and religious processes in parts of Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and the Indus Valley.
Κατηγορίες:
Έτος:
2005
Εκδότης:
BAR Publishing
Γλώσσα:
english
ISBN 13:
9781841716985
Σειρές:
British Archaeological Reports International Series
Αρχείο:
PDF, 63.81 MB
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english, 2005