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Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India

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 | #8941389 in Books |  1996-01-04 | Original language:English |  9.50 x1.13 x6.38l, | File type: PDF | 360 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Women's Role in Hospitality and Ritual in Ancient India|By Linda Blanchard|I can't review this book from a scholarly perspective because I'm not a professor, nor am I a student of any school but I do have a deep interest in ancient India and in women's roles, so when I went searching for books on Vedic ritual, I was quite glad to find this one. Ms. Jamison's book follows the s| ||"The scholarship is extremely fine. Jamison has investigated thoroughly all major literature on the subject....Her writing is very clear and lively. She shows the ways in which these rituals address very human problems and situations. Jamison's discussions re

Jamison examines the conceptual position of women in the culture of early India, specifically the Vedic and early epic periods (c. 1500-200 BC). Jamison begins by focusing on a single, apparently marginal female role, the activities of the "Sacrificer's Wife" in solemn ritual, and isolating the set of conceptual functions filled by the wife in that context. She then turns to a brief but emblematic myth from the middle Vedic period, "Manu's cups", in which a woman barely ...

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