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Children of the Earth Goddess
Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Odisha
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Roland Hardenberg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as the real “Avatars” because they successfully fought a multinational company’s plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.
Author / Editor information
Roland Josef Hardenberg, University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 18, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110532883
Hardcover published on:
December 18, 2017
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110530483
Paperback published on:
December 2, 2019
Paperback ISBN:
9783110684971
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
25
Main content:
684
Coloured Illustrations:
23
Line drawings:
51
Tables:
45
eBook ISBN:
9783110532883
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110530483
Paperback ISBN:
9783110684971
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Religious Studies, Cultural Studies and Asian Studies
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
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