Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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Page 242
... agents went to their jajmans in the slack season . This of course has the advantage that contact between the jajman and the panda is not restricted to a short visit from the jajman and thereby to only one gift . Moreover , often a gift ...
... agents went to their jajmans in the slack season . This of course has the advantage that contact between the jajman and the panda is not restricted to a short visit from the jajman and thereby to only one gift . Moreover , often a gift ...
Page 243
... agents on a tour of pilgrimage centres and the agents are paid at least the costs of their own travelling by the panda or half of the amount offered by ' his ' pilgrims , from which the travelling costs are deducted . It is indeed the ...
... agents on a tour of pilgrimage centres and the agents are paid at least the costs of their own travelling by the panda or half of the amount offered by ' his ' pilgrims , from which the travelling costs are deducted . It is indeed the ...
Page 245
... agents . They had always been employers of a large staff of agents who were paid in money and in kind . This service relation gave them at least some power over the agents , to whom they could offer relatively secure employment . Now ...
... agents . They had always been employers of a large staff of agents who were paid in money and in kind . This service relation gave them at least some power over the agents , to whom they could offer relatively secure employment . Now ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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