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Paperback / softback. New. Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice.…
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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals Paperback - 2011
by Rachel Fell McDermott
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- Title Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
- Author Rachel Fell McDermott
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 2011-05-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231129190 / 023112919X
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 8.95 x 6.09 x 0.79 in (22.73 x 15.47 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Religious Orientation: Hindu
- Library of Congress subjects West Bengal (India) - Religious life and, Durga-puja (Hindu festival) - India - West
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010020693
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.536
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