Singing the Goddess Into Place: Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

Author: Caleb Simmons
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 01/02/2023
Pages: 263
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781438488660
ISBN10: 1438488661
BISAC Categories:
– Religion | Hinduism | Ritual & Practices
– Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
– Social Science | Women’s Studies

About the Author
Caleb Simmons is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty Director of the Bachelor of General Studies Program in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India and coeditor (with Moumita Sen and Hillary Rodrigues) of Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navartri Festival in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press.

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