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Death and Life-Giving Waters: Cremation, caste, and cosmogony in karmic traditions

Terje Oestigaard
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In this original work, the author aims to develop a synthetic perspective for enhancing the understanding of the roles death and life-giving waters have in the constitution of society and cosmos in karmic traditions through a material culture study of death and funeral practices as cultural, ritual, and religious processes in parts of Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and the Indus Valley.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Cremating Death – Creating Life
  • Chapter 1: Cremations, kings, and katto
  • Chapter 2: Sacrifices of kings – Constructions of castes and cosmos
  • Chapter 3: Meditation upon death and digestion of the dead
  • Chapter 4: Paradoxes of purity and pollution
  • Part 2: The Sisters Kali and Ganga
  • Chapter 5: “I am on my dharma, but Kali is on my karma”
  • Chapter 6: Castes without Brahmans
  • Chapter 7: Water burials of Mother Goddesses
  • Chapter 8: Hindus in a Muslim World
  • Part 3: Reality, Materiality, and Spirituality
  • Chapter 9: River and rain – Waters of life and death
  • Chapter 10: The hydrological circle – Cosmos and copulation
  • Chapter 11: Myth and materiality – Mind in matter
  • Chapter 12: Shivaratri, sadhus, and sewage
  • Chapter 13: Status and flesh – Conceptualising corpses
  • Part 4: Archaeology of Water-Worlds
  • Chapter 14: Pashupatinath as living traditions and cultural heritage
  • Chapter 15: Rebirth and water in ancient Greece and India
  • Chapter 16: Exposure, purity, and Zoroastrianism
  • Chapter 17: Religious syncretism at Taxila
  • Conclusion
  • Appendixes and Literature
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Appendix E
  • Literature
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Published: 2005
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Copyright Holder: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781841716985 (paperback)
  • 9781407327839 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1353
Subject
  • Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
  • Multiperiod
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Central and South Asia
  • Ritual / Religion / Temples
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