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Télécharger le livre : After the War
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After the War
Wendy Doniger
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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10,21 €
Télécharger le livre : The Ring of Truth
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The Ring of Truth
Wendy Doniger
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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18,24 €
Télécharger le livre : Pluralism and Democracy in India
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Pluralism and Democracy in India
Wendy Doniger , Martha C. Nussbaum
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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17,03 €
Télécharger le livre : Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
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Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
Wendy Doniger , Christian Wedemeyer
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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18,73 €
Télécharger le livre : The Rig Veda
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The Rig Veda
Wendy Doniger
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-03-31

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Wendy Doniger
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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53,54 €
Télécharger le livre : Hindu Myths
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Hindu Myths
Wendy Doniger
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-06-24

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Kamasutra
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Kamasutra
Wendy Doniger , Sudhir Kakar , Mallanaga Vatsyayana
'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
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Kamasutra
Wendy Doniger , Sudhir Kakar , Mallanaga Vatsyayana
'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 : The Laws of Manu
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The Laws of Manu
Wendy Doniger , Brian Smith
The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the social obligations...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1991-08-29

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10,99 €