Sexual Metaphors and Animal Symbols in Indian Mythology
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty
Sexual Metaphors and Animal Symbols in Indian Mythology is a study of Women Androgynes and other mythological Beasts to express religious concepts about the relationships between men and women,
parents and children, gods and goddesses, and humans and deities. The analysis attempts to understand these dominant themes as they occur in myths, rituals, and other cultural manifestations throughout the ancient world and in our own contem
porary culture.
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty uses an
eclectic methodological approach, drawing upon insights from psychoanalysis, anthropology, traditional philology, and history of religions.
“An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of idea, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author’s inter pretation, one cannot but admire her vast
and precise learning, her splendid trans lations and exegesis of so many an
parents and children, gods and goddesses, and humans and deities. The analysis attempts to understand these dominant themes as they occur in myths, rituals, and other cultural manifestations throughout the ancient world and in our own contem
porary culture.
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty uses an
eclectic methodological approach, drawing upon insights from psychoanalysis, anthropology, traditional philology, and history of religions.
“An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of idea, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author’s inter pretation, one cannot but admire her vast
and precise learning, her splendid trans lations and exegesis of so many an
კატეგორია:
წელი:
2022
გამომცემლობა:
motilal
ენა:
english
ISBN 10:
0226618498
ISBN 13:
9780226618494
ფაილი:
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english, 2022