Description: The Cult of the Goddess Pattini by Gananath Obeyesekere Hardcover, 1984 Condition:Dust jacket is damaged, ripped, etc. Some staining that can be seen on the fore edge of the book (the outer edges of the book when the book is closed). Pages are in otherwise good condition. See photos. Description:Pattini—goddess, virgin, wife, and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon—has been worshiped in Sri Lanka and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long-awaited book is the culmination of Gananath Obeyesekere's comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well-known anthropologist and a native of Sri Lanka, Obeyesekere displays his impeccable scholarship and a stunning range of theoretical perspectives in this work, the most detailed analysis of a single religious complex in South Asian ethnography (and possibly in all of anthropology).
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Publication Year: 1984
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Genre: Mysticism, Politics & Society, Religious & Spiritual, Sociology
Topic: Anthropology, Buddhism, Hinduism, Social History, Social Sciences, Sociology
