When the Goddess was a woman : Mahābhārata ethnographies ; essays. Vol. 2 / by Alf Hiltebeitel ; edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-and indexes.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Draupadi's Hair -- ch. Two Draupadi's Garments -- ch. Three Siva, the Goddess, and the Disguises of the Pandavas and Draupadi -- ch. Four Purity and Auspiciousness in the Sanskrit Epics -- ch. Five Folklore of Draupadi: Saris and Hair -- ch. Six Orders of Diffusion in Indian Folk Religion -- ch. Seven Draupadi Cult Lilas -- ch. Eight Colonialist Lenses on the South Indian Draupadi Cult -- ch. Nine Review of Landscapes of Urban Memory -- ch. Ten Draupadi's Question -- ch. Eleven Dying Before the Mahabharata War: Martial and Transsexual Body-Building for Aravan -- ch. Twelve Hair Like Snakes and Mustached Brides: Crossed Gender in an Indian Folk Cult -- ch. Thirteen Kuttantavar: The Divine Lives of a Severed Head -- ch. Fourteen Kattantavar's Cross: Making That Young Bride, Whoever She Is, a Widow -- ch. Fifteen Indus Valley "Proto-Siva': Reexamined through Reflections on the Goddess, the Buffalo, and the Symbolism of Vahanas -- ch. Sixteen Fathers of the Bride, Fathers of Safi: Myths, Rites, and Scholarly Practices -- ch. Seventeen Two Ways to Tell a Story: Alha in the Bhavisya Purdna -- ch. Eighteen Boar and Twins: Comparing the Tulu Koti-Cennaya Pciddana and the Tamil Elder Brothers Story -- ch. Nineteen On the Handling of the Meat and Related Matters: Two South Indian Buffalo Sacrifices -- ch. Twenty Transmitting Mahabhäratas: Another Look at Peter Brook.

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