| Titre : | Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern india |
| Auteurs : | William Dalrymple |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | London : Bloomsbury, 2009 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-4880-0614-2 |
| Format : | 284 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | 302 (Interactions sociales, communication, interculturalité) |
| Mots-clés: | Inde |
| Résumé : |
From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known.
A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling. William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spiriT. |
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| Localisation | Code-barres | Cote | Support | Section | Disponibilité |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Delhi | DE308393 | I 302.5 DAL | Livre | Inde | Libre accès Disponible |
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