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Hindu Myths by Wendy Doniger
Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Presents seventy-five seminal myths which feature 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.
Myth and Meaning by Claude Lévi-Strauss; Wendy Doniger (Foreword by)
Category: History
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared ...Show more
Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern; Philip Roth (Introduction by); Wendy Doniger (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction
"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked o ...Show more
RING OF TRUTH & OTHER MYTHS OF SEX & JEWELLERY by DONIGER WENDY
Category: Home and Garden
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 ...Show more
Redeeming the Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger
Category: Languages and Reference
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 nat ...Show more
The Hindus: An Alternative History by wendy doniger
Category: Religion
"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 i ...Show more
The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger
Category: Spirituality
"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 its ...Show more
The Norton Anthology of World Religions - Hinduism by Wendy Doniger
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The Norton Anthology of World Religions offers a beautifully designed library of more than 1,000 primary texts, accompanied by headnotes, annotations, glossaries, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and a dazzling general introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles. This collection "will unsettle so ...Show more
The Rig Veda by Wendy Doniger
Category: Classic Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Woman Who Pretended to be Who She Was: Myths of Self-imitation by Wendy Doniger
Category: Languages and Reference
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 ...Show more
Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Category: Languages and Reference
"An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation, one cannot but admire her vast and precise ...Show more
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