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The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
ISBN: 9780190267117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) love? The cross-cultural distribution of the mythology of sexual rings is impressive--from ancient India and Greece through the Arab world to Shakespeare, Marie Antoinette, Wagner, nineteenth-century novels, Hollywood, and the De Beers advertising campaign that gave us the expression, "Diamonds Are...
Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betr...
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184,17 zł |
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Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
ISBN: 9780226156415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In "Splitting the Difference, " the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more recent "double features" from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to "Face/Off."
Myth, Doniger argues, responds to the complexities of the human condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal parts, and these... Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, wh...
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164,75 zł |
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
ISBN: 9780199593347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions from one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism.
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions fr...
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108,85 zł |
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The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some Moral Tales From The Mahabharata
ISBN: 9789354477171 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,74 zł |
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The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir
ISBN: 9781512603514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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153,76 zł |
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Redeeming the Kamasutra
ISBN: 9780190499280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement and inspires magazine articles that offer "mattress-quaking sex styles" such as "the backstairs boogie" and "the spider web."
In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's... The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and...
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97,68 zł |
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The Rig Veda
ISBN: 9780140449891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology, religion and culture. This selection of 108 of the hymns, chosen for their eloquence and wisdom, focuses on the enduring themes of creation, sacrifice, death, women, the sacred plant soma and the gods. Inspirational and profound, it provides a fascinating introduction to one...
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, ...
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51,82 zł |
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
ISBN: 9780231156417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach. By responsibly analyzing patterns and themes across context, Doniger reinvigorates the comparative reading of religion, tapping into a wealth of narrative traditions, from the instructive tales of Judaism and Christianity to the moral lessons of the Bhagavad Gita. She extracts political meaning from a variety of texts while respecting the original ideas of each. A new preface confronts the difficulty of...
Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical,...
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483,25 zł |
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
ISBN: 9780231156424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach. By responsibly analyzing patterns and themes across context, Doniger reinvigorates the comparative reading of religion, tapping into a wealth of narrative traditions, from the instructive tales of Judaism and Christianity to the moral lessons of the Bhagavad Gita. She extracts political meaning from a variety of texts while respecting the original ideas of each. A new preface confronts the difficulty of...
Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical,...
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207,72 zł |
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
ISBN: 9780143116691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher."
-The Washington Post An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account. Many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated within a century; its central tenets arise at particular moments in Indian history and often differ according to gender or caste; and the differences between groups... "Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher."
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105,79 zł |
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After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata
ISBN: 9780197553398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many of their own comrades to suicide through meditation and, finally, magical transportation to both heaven and hell. Bereaved mothers and widows on earth are comforted when their dead sons and
husbands are magically conjured up from heaven and emerge from a river to spend one glorious night on earth with their loved ones. ... After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this afte...
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416,51 zł |
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The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir
ISBN: 9781512603521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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87,86 zł |
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On Hinduism
ISBN: 9780190455101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 682 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day. The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great...
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted h...
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206,42 zł |
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Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit
ISBN: 9780140449907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys. Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life, they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world - from the teeming miracles of...
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the...
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57,00 zł |
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On Hinduism
ISBN: 9780199360079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 682 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day. The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great...
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted h...
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233,59 zł |
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Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History
ISBN: 9780813945750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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186,61 zł |
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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation
ISBN: 9780195160161 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self.
In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human... Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as th...
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337,44 zł |
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Pluralism and Democracy in India
ISBN: 9780195394825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and protects liberties of religion and speech. But a decent Constitution does not implement itself, and challenges to these core values repeatedly arise-most recently in the form of the Hindu Right movements...
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's...
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648,81 zł |
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
ISBN: 9780231111706 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions and experiences that join us across race, religion, and nation. Wendy Doniger offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial intellectual life. In this spirited, enlightening book, she shows just how to make sense of, and learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past and present. Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the...
At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when hu...
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628,33 zł |
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After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata
ISBN: 9780197553404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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85,32 zł |
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