After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata

ISBN-13: 9780197553404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str.

University of C Professor Emerita Wendy (Professor Emerita

Recenzje

This brief book discusses and translates the last books of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

O autorze

Wendy Doniger has taught at Harvard, Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and the University of California at Berkeley, and, from 1978, at the University of Chicago, where she was the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, in the Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought, now Emerita. She is the author of over forty books, including translations of Sanskrit texts as well as books about Hindu mythology and cross-cultural mythology, particularly about illusion, animals, gender, and sex. In 1984 she was elected President of the American Academy of Religion, in 1989 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1996 a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1997 President of the Association for Asian Studies.