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Autor:
Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
Nidan : International Journal for Indian Studies. 5:27-50
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2c595fc5acc9da168934ba18a61fae0f
https://doi.org/10.36886/nidan.2020.5.2.3
https://doi.org/10.36886/nidan.2020.5.2.3
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban are
Autor:
Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
Religions of South Asia. 13
The Kannimar are seven look-alike goddesses affiliated with the Pleiades. In local Tamil folk temples of Tamilnadu’s Kongu area they are worshipped in one cluster, as sisters. They are mediators who occupy a middle ground, both spatially and ritual
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https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.19310
https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.19310
Autor:
Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
Oxford Scholarship
According to South Asian Hindu tradition, what traits or actions lead to a woman becoming “a living goddess”? To answer that question, this chapter considers an ancient Tamil legend known as The Legend of Ponnivala. In that epic story, a mother a
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::940f42bae5674baf48c455acd08077fe
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767022.003.0010
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767022.003.0010
Autor:
Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
Religious Studies and Theology. 33:65-92
This essay looks beneath the surface of the “Annanmar Katai,” a major folk epic from Tamilnadu, to discover how the lone female in a set of three siblings leads a life very different from that of her two elder brothers. In the absence of their pa
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https://doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v33i1.65
https://doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v33i1.65
Publikováno v:
Asian Folklore Studies. 54:348
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::827dc03384f6614d4626d54a941f9d68
https://doi.org/10.2307/1178963
https://doi.org/10.2307/1178963
Autor:
Robert A. Randall, Ivan Fónagy, J. Christopher Crocker, James W. Fernandez, William C. McCormack, Stephen C. Levinson, Mary Douglas, Munro S. Edmonson, Yalçin İzbul, Istvan Fodor, Franklin Loveland, J. David Sapir, Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
Current Anthropology. 19:83-97
Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key dat
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https://doi.org/10.1086/202006
https://doi.org/10.1086/202006
Autor:
Philippe Mitrani, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ivan Karp, Thomas Rhys Williams, Michael P. Carroll, Jeffrey H. Goldstein, Jan Van Baal, Thomas J. Scheff, Kurt O. Schlesinger, John D. Stoeckle, Bruce Kapferer, Don Handelman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Aaron Lazare, Brenda E. F. Beck, W.E.A. van Beek, Stephen Fuchs, Richard Day
Publikováno v:
Current Anthropology. 18:483-505
There is an ambivalence toward ritual in social science. On the one hand, it is seen as immensely valuable to the individual and to society. On the other hand, there is an underlying feeling that ritual is impotent. This paper presents a theory of th
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https://doi.org/10.1086/201928
https://doi.org/10.1086/201928
Autor:
Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
Contributions to Indian Sociology. 16:35-57
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::78db5750181053baafd5b635ea41ea12
https://doi.org/10.1177/006996678201600102
https://doi.org/10.1177/006996678201600102
Autor:
Brenda E. F. Beck
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Asian Studies. 29:779-798
What were the reasons for the development of a right-left division of South Indian castes? Why has this division become less of a focus of rivalry in modern times? This article uses observations collected in the Coimbatore region of Madras State betw
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911800138240
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911800138240