Playing for real
Subtitle: Hindu role models, religion, and gender
By: edited by Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and Lynn Thomas.
Contributors: Suthren Hirst, Jacqueline.; Lynn, Thomas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Hinduism -- Influence -- Congresses; Mythology, Hindu -- Congresses; Role models -- IndiaCongresses; India -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Contributed papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge in 1998.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Role, role model, and function : the Sanskrit epic warrior in comparison and theory / Alf Hiltebeitel; title: Digits from the dada : pointers to the articulation of Sainik role models in Mumbai / Raminder Kaur; title: Childhood and schooling in an Indian village / Padma Sarangapani; title: Confrontation, transgression, and submission : ideals of womanhood in the Manasāmaṅgala / Mandakranta Bose; title: Is love still stronger than dharma? : whatever happened to Sita's choice and the gopīs voice? / Heidi Pauwels; title: Pregnancy rituals amongst the Rajput elite in contemporary Rajasthan : anthropology and the world of women / Marzia Balzani; title: Subverting the fierce goddess : Phoolan Devi and the politics of vengeance / Sarab Caldwell.