The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 02/01/1984
Description:
The concurrent Hindu worship of Pattini with its myths and rituals is described in detail. Obeyesekere documents the Sanskritization of Pattini, the changing physical structures of the goddess's shrines form the 1930's to the present, the assumption by Brahman priests of ritual functions formerly carried out by folk priests, and the sociocultural causes of these changes
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