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100			_aSax, William S. _95736
245			_aMountain Goddess: _bgender and politics in a himalayan pilgrimage
260			_aNew York _bOxford University Press _c1991
300			_ax, 235p., _bpbk.
500			_ahttps://global.oup.com/ushe/product/mountain-goddess-9780195069792?cc=in&lang=en&
520			_aEvery few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddessis an anthropological study of this pilgrimage and the cult of Nandadevi, especially as they relate to local women's lives. The author shows how Nandadevi's appeal stems from the fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women, and that her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Drawing on formal Indian theories, verbal commentaries, songs, interviews, articles, propaganda, legends, pan-Indian Sanskrit liturgies, historical documents, and the author's remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage, this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion, Hinduism, and folklore, ritual, and gender studies.
650			_aNandadevi - Hindu Deity _911970
650			_aHindu Pilgrimages _911971
650			_aWomen, Hindu - Uttarakhanda _911972
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