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God of Justice

Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas

By: William S Sax

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God of Justice

Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas

By: William S Sax

In God of Justice, anthropologist William S. Sax offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India. Based on ten years' ethnographic fieldwork, God of Justice shows how these practices are part of a moral system based on the principle of family unity.

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0199714673

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God of Justice

Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas

By: William S Sax

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Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas

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In the Valley of the Kauravas

A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya

By: William S. Sax

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In the Valley of the Kauravas

A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya

By: William S. Sax

The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel through their territories to mark their borders and to ward off incursions by rival gods. These, identified with Karna and Duryodhana from the great Indian epic Mahabharata, are regarded as divine kings whom local persons serve as priests, ministers, patrons, soldiers, and servants. Each divine kings has an oracle, who is regularly summoned, enters into a trance, and speaks with the god's voice, appointing and dismissing officers, confiscating property, levying fines, and ratifying the decisions of councils of elders. The gods hear civil and sometimes criminal cases and, through their oracles, enforce their judgments through fines and penalties, or by compelling disputants to reach a compromise. In the Valley of the Kauravas seeks to describe how this system functions by closely examining the myths, legends, rituals, and folklore associated with it, and above all by providing a detailed ethnographic description of its day-to-day workings. It contextualizes this system by comparing it with 'divine kingship' throughout history, in both South and Southeast Asia, and seeks to embed this historical and ethnographic analysis in a theoretical discussion of the nature, goals, and limits of anthropological knowledge of 'multiple worlds'. The chapters of the book are organized in terms of the 'seven limbs' of the classical Indian kingdom as described by the political philosopher Kautilya: king, land and people, minister, army, treasury, ally, and enemy.

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0198879415

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Applied Statistical Methods

For Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences

By: William Lee Carlson,Betty Thorne

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Applied Statistical Methods

For Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences

By: William Lee Carlson,Betty Thorne

This book describes and explains the entire process of designing and building a distributed object application with the VisualAge Smalltalk Distributed feature. This book contains an overview of the features and architecture of SmallTalk's Distributed feature; sample application components with supporting documentation to illustrate design and coding; and recommendations for building distributed object applications with VisualAge. Learn how to set up the development environment, and special considerations for testing, run-time configurations, optimization and performance tuning. For software development managers, designers and others planning to develop client/server and peer-to-peer applications with distributed objects using VisualAge.

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0135708478

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Mountain Goddess

Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage

By: William Sturman Sax

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Mountain Goddess

Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage

By: William Sturman Sax

Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddessis an anthropological study of this pilgrimage and the cult of Nandadevi, especially as they relate to local women's lives. The author shows how Nandadevi's appeal stems from the fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women, and that her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Drawing on formal Indian theories, verbal commentaries, songs, interviews, articles, propaganda, legends, pan-Indian Sanskrit liturgies, historical documents, and the author's remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage, this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion, Hinduism, and folklore, ritual, and gender studies.

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019506979X

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Dancing the Self

Personhood and Performance in the Pāṇḍav Līlā of Garhwal

By: William Sturman Sax

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Dancing the Self

Personhood and Performance in the Pāṇḍav Līlā of Garhwal

By: William Sturman Sax

Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India. He saw and took part in many performances of the pandav lila, a ritual reenactment of scenes from the Mahabharata in dance.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195139151

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In the Valley of the Kauravas

A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya

By: William S. Sax

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In the Valley of the Kauravas

A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya

By: William S. Sax

In Western Himalaya, local gods are seen to rule as kings, communicating with their subjects through their human oracles. They remain central in modern society, and In the Valley of the Kauravas explores how the power of the local gods and oracles remains by examining the myths, legends, rituals, and folklore of the region.

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0198879350

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Complete Jazz Sax Book

By: William Bay

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Complete Jazz Sax Book

By: William Bay

A comprehensive study text teaching elements of jazz phrasing, articulation, vibrato, chord studies, and technical studies leading to improvisation. In addition, a theory workbook section teaches scales, modal concepts and chord construction. Includes jazz sax studies and sax improvising.

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1609740238

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Book's by William S. Sax

God of Justice

God of Justice

God of Justice

God of Justice

In the Valley of the Kauravas

In the Valley of the Kauravas

Applied Statistical Methods

Applied Statistical Methods

Mountain Goddess

Mountain Goddess

Dancing the Self

Dancing the Self

In the Valley of the Kauravas

In the Valley of the Kauravas

Complete Jazz Sax Book

Complete Jazz Sax Book

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