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Stories about Posts is the magnum opus of Madeleine Biardeau, one of the most influential Indologists of the twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, it connects her varied studies on the Sanskrit epics, the Hindu Goddess, Vedic sacrifice, rural India, and the interpretation of Hinduism. After exploring several ethnographic facts that have escaped the notice of previous observers, Biardeau presents a variety of hunches, hypotheses, and insights building up to the provocative thesis of Stories about Posts: that the variations found in the contemporary cult of the Goddess - in both her royal and rural village aspects - reveal untraced regional histories of the Vedic sacrificial post, the yupa. Biardeau's work opens up new ways to think about Vedic sacrificial themes and elements as they recur in post-Vedic texts and iconographies. It also relates previously misunderstood wayside stones in Maharashtra that are named after the buffalo to stones, posts, and people named after a so-called Buffalo King in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamilnadu.

About the Author :
Madeleine Biardeau is directeur d'etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She is the author of several books, including Hinduism: The Anthropology of a Civilization. Alf Hiltebeitel is professor of religion and human sciences at George Washington University. Marie-Louise Reiniche is a researcher at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, section des sciences religiouses. John Walker is also affiliated with the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.

Review :
"Biardeau should need no introduction for anglophone scholars of Indian religion. Yet this volume serves as just such a showcase. . . . What is on display in this volume is Biardeau's long-standing commitment to linking different aspects of the Indic universe: Sanskrit, Vedic studies, South Indian languages and ritual, ethnography. . . . It is no wonder that this is the volume that she felt best represented her interests and therefore wanted translated for a wider audience."--Frederick M. Smith "Journal of Religion" "The author is a distinguished Indologist who has written a tour de force in the field that combines ethnology and textual study. . . . This book is essential reading for any Indologist and ethnologist."--Carl Olson "Hindu Studies"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226045955
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Height: 263 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 938 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0226045951
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess
  • Width: 187 mm


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