...Joanne Punzo Waghorne The Triumph of the Goddess: The Canonical Models and Theological Visions of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa . By C. Mackenzie Brown . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1990 . xvi, 327 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Encountering the Goddess...

...Daniel Gold When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping Mā Ānandamayī after Her Death . By Orianne Aymard . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780199368624 (paper). The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint . By Karline...

... of low caste pollution among high caste women, see Raghavan, P. 35. 28 See his discussion of conscious and unconscious models in Anthropologie Structurale , p. 308. Dual Organization in Central Ceylon? or The Goddess on the Tree-top. NUR YALMAN Un modele quelconque peut etre conscient ou...

...Westin Harris Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal . By Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xx, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780199341160 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021...

...William Harman Of Death and Birth: Icakkiyamman, a Tamil Goddess, in Ritual and Story . By Barbara Schuler . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag , 2009 . xvi, 501 pp., DVD. $168.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Tamil village goddesses...

... of learning had devoted himself to such concerns, but that would have been another book, and not the present one. JOANNA WILLIAMS University of California, Berkeley Myth, Cult and Symbols of Sakta Hinduism: A Study of the Indian Mother Goddess. By WENDELL CHARLES BEANE. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. xiii, 288 pp...

...Phyllis K. Herman The Goddess as Role Model: Sītā and Rādhā in Scripture and on Screen . By Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels . Oxford : Oxford University , 2008 . xvi , 558 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 In the introduction to her...

...Ralph W. Nicholas Abstract Śītalā, Goddess of Smallpox, is the preeminent tutelary deity of villages in southwestern Bengal, and a goddess of the same name has a prominent role in Hindu pantheons throughout northern India. Her rise to importance is closely related to the history of smallpox, which...

...Arjun Appadurai The Cult of the Goddess Pattini . By Gananath Obeyesekere . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1984 . xvii, 629 pp. Figures, References, Name Index, Subject Index, Plates. $42.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...Pamela Price Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple . By C. J. Fuller . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . xxvi, 232 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Notes, References, List of Cases, Index. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985...

...Frank J. Korom The Triumph of the Snake Goddess . By Kaiser Haq . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2015 . x, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780674365292 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Medieval Bengal saw the rise of a narrative genre known...

...Ralph W. Nicholas Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa . Part I (Chapters 54–69). Translated, Introduced, and Annotated By K. R. Van Kooij . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1972 . x, 197 pp. Indexes. D. gld. 36 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 172...

...Rachel Sturman Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion . By Lucinda Ramberg . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2014 . xiv, 282 pp. ISBN: 9780822357100 (cloth; also available in paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Elaine Craddock The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition . By Tracy Pintchman . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1994 . xii, 288 pp. $14.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 512 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES "chaos theory...

...Frédérique Apffel Marglin The Book of the Goddess, Past and Present: An Introduction to Her Religion . Edited by Carl Olson . New York : Crossroad , 1983 . 261 pp. Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 890...

...Kathleen M. Erndl Devi: The Great Goddess. Female Divinity in South Asian Art . By Vidya Dehejia . Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery , Smithsonian Institution, in association with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad and Prestel Veriag, Munich, 1999 . 408 pp. $85.00 (cloth...

...Rachel Fell McDermott Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess . Edited by Tracy Pintchman . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2001 . 244 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Elaine Craddock At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion . By Lynn Foulston . Brighton and Portland, Ore. : Sussex Academic Press , 2002 . xvi , 242 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 222 T H E J O U R N A L O F...

...Rachel Fell McDermott Devoted to the Goddess: The Life and Work of Ramprasad . By Malcolm McLean . SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Edited by Wendy Doniger . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1998 . xix, 205 pp. $59-50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association...

...Elizabeth M. Rohlman Sarasvatī, Riverine Goddess of Knowledge: From the Manuscript-carrying Vīṇā-player to the Weapon-wielding defender of the Dharma . By Catherine Ludvik . Leiden : Brill , 2007 . $166.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...