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Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
Gananath Obeyesekere
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| #1025973 in Books | 1984-09-15 | 1984-09-15 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.80 x5.50l,.65 | File type: PDF | 232 pages||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Sacred or crazy - a matter of cultural knowledge|By Jon C. Tevik|What is most rewarding with this book, is the cultural/cognitive analysis done by the author. Obeyesekere explains how the women with matted hair (in an Indian province) obtain their particular status in a society brimming with mythological images and tales very much pervading daily life. Very Freudian in his ap
The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience | Gananath Obeyesekere. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
