Say to the Sun, "Don't Rise," and to the Moon, "Don't Set": Two Oral Narratives from the Countryside of Maharashtra (South Asia Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199357641 ISBN 13: 9780199357642

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

[ Say to the Sun, 'Don't Rise, ' and to the Moon, 'Don't Set': Two Oral Narratives from the Countryside of Maharashtra By ( Author ) Dec-2014 Hardcover

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Feldhaus is Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra and Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India, as well as several other books on religious traditions of the Marathi-language region of India. She is fluent in Marathi and has lived in India for several long periods.

Review:

"This translation of two traditional oral narratives of a shepherd community in western India stands as a rich and copious archive of traditional narrative materials and ethnographic observations that will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars interested in oral performance, folk religion, or rural/pastoral culture in South Asia." -- Adheesh Sathaye

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199357641
• ISBN 13: 9780199357642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 632