Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage

by William S. Sax

Book Overview

Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddessis an anthropological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506979X
• ISBN13: 9780195069792
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"