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02183nam a22003137a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780195092837 (pbk.) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
294.5212 |
| Item number |
FEL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Feldhaus, Anne. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Water and womanhood : |
| Remainder of title |
religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1995 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
250 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., map ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Rivers in India are commonly associated with certain worldly religious values: wealth, beauty, long life, good health, food, love, and the birth of children. However, these "domestic" values have been relatively neglected by Indologists, who have tended to view India and Hinduism through the prism of poverty, misery, asceticism, and themes of purity or pollution. Following recent scholarship by arguing that the earthly pursuits are equally vital to an understanding of popular Hinduism, Feldhaus examines the role of these ideals in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India. Drawing both on written religious texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual materials gathered in the course of field work in India, she shows that these values, which are usually associated with women or represented by goddesses, are an important motif in popular religious practices and oral traditions associated with the rivers of Maharashtra, and she presents the many different ways in which rivers are imagined, enshrined, worshipped, and feared. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Rivers |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Women in Hinduism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Goddesses, Indic |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Rivers |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Rivers |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/94036158-d.html |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/94036158-t.html |
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Book |
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2537 |
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2136 |
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2538 |
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2537 |
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2537 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| General subdivision |
Religious aspects |
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Hinduism. |
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2135 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Geographic subdivision |
India |
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Maharashtra. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2137 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| General subdivision |
Mythology |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
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Maharashtra. |
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2138 |
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| Geographic subdivision |
India |
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Maharashtra |
| General subdivision |
Folklore. |
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2139 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Maharashtra (India) |
| General subdivision |
Religious life and customs. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2140 |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Publisher description |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Table of contents only |
