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In the Company of Gods
This Volume Contains Twenty Essays Divided Into Four Sections: Folk Religion, Bhakti, History And Law, And An Epilogue That Reflects On Sontheimer`S Thoughts On Hindu Law, The Constituents Of Hinduism, His Interest In Folk Bronzes, Documentary Film-Making, And A Poem By Dilip Chitre On Sontheimer. The Resultant Volume Is Testimony To The Shoreless Reach Of Sontheimer`S Work.
Pastoral Deities in Western India
In This Work, Sontheimer Explains The Religion A Rich Oral Trasdtion Of The Pastoral Communities Of Deccan - Especially The Dhangars, Shepards 0Of Maharashtra As Also Of Other As Also Of Other Groups Typical Of The Forest And Pasture Area, Tribals, Robbers Etc. 9 Chapters - Appendix In 5 Parts - Bibliography - Index.
Pastoral Deities in Western India
This translation of a groundbreaking book by the internationally renowned German ethonographer Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer describes the religious system of a pastoralist area which includes parts of three linguistic regions: Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. Making use of oral narratives collected from this area, the book critically examines its gods and their worshippers: not only pastoralists, but also ferrymen, merchants, robbers, and wandering holy men. Sontheimer places the oral material in its social, cultural, and ecological context, showing how myths and ritual cycles give shape to the people's collective identity and attitudes toward other communities. The result of hundreds of interviews, the book not only presents an unprecedented look at a virtually unstudied and fast disappearing way of life but makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Hindu tradition."
Essays on Religion, Literature, and Law
The Present Volume Contains Fourteen Selected Papers In English By The Late G.D. Sontheimer And Follows Up On His Earlier Volume King Of Hunters, Warriors, And Shepherds: Essays On Khandoba (Delhi 1997). The Volume Contains Essays On The Juristic Personality Of Hindu Deities, The History And Religion Of Pastoral Groups In The Deccan And The Interdependence Of Folk And Scriptural Religion. The Articles Reflect Sontheimer`S Multidisciplinary Approach, Combining The Methodologies Of Philology, Anthropology, History, Archaeology, Epigraphy And Iconography.
Hinduism Reconsidered
Papers presented at the 9th European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, held at Wilhelmsfeld in 1986.
Say to the Sun, "don't Rise," and to the Moon, "don't Set"
Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the region of western India called Maharashtra. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds of Maharashtra is not only one of the most important elements of their own traditional cultural life, but also a treasure of world literature. This volume presents two lively and well-crafted examples of the ovi, a genre typical of the oral literature of Dhangars. The two ovis in the volume narrate the stories of Biroba and Dhuloba, two of the most important gods of Dhangar shepherds. Each of the ovis tells an elaborate story of the birth of the god - a miraculous and complicated process in both cases - and of the struggles each one goes through in order to find and win his bride. The extensive introduction provides a literary analysis of the ovis and discusses what they reveal about the cosmology, geography, society, administrative structures, and economy of their performers' world, and about the performers views of pastoralistsand women.
Hybrid Histories
Study of Dangs, a district in western India
Head and Heart
An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
