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Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India

Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India

Jamison, Stephanie W.

Paperback

Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies (Paperback)

LinguisticsIndian & South Asian HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0195096630
ISBN13: 9780195096637
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 4 1996
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
This book concerns the conceptual position of women in early India, specifically in the Vedic and early epic periods (c.1500-200 BCE), and it seeks to make contributions both to Indology and to gender studies. By focusing on a single female role--the activities of the Sacrificer's Wife in solemn ritual--and by extracting the rich materials on her role from the voluminous technical ritual manuals, the author isolates a set of conceptual functions the wife fills in ritual practice. These functions can then be observed in other cultural institutions in which women participate--particularly the system of hospitality and gift exchange that regulated the relations between mutually obligated strangers in ancient India and the system of marital exchange.

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