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Death and Life-Giving Waters

Cremation, caste, and cosmogony in karmic traditions

£89.00
Author:
Terje Oestigaard
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716985
Paperback:
353pp. Includes 125 figures, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, 6 colour illustrations. 4 Appendices and Glossary
ISBN 10:
1841716987
BAR number:
S1353
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
In this original work, the author aims to develop a synthetic perspective for enhancing the understanding of the roles death and life-giving waters have in the constitution of society and cosmos in karmic traditions through a material culture study of death and funeral practices as cultural, ritual, and religious processes in parts of Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and the Indus Valley.