Télécharger le livre :  After the War
After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ring of Truth
Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected?Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Redeeming the Kamasutra
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Pluralism and Democracy in India
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-02-09
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Télécharger le livre :  On Hinduism
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-03-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Kamasutra
'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Kamasutra
'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-03-21
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