Karma an anthropological inquiry edited by Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel
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- Author
- Keyes, Charles F
- Daniel, E. Valentine
- Contents
- Introduction : the study of popular ideas of karma / Charles F. Keyes -- The tool box approach of the Tamil to the issues of moral responsibility and human destiny / Sheryl B. Daniel -- Fate, karma, and cursing in a local epic milieu / Brenda E.F. Beck -- Karma divined in a ritual capsule / E. Valentine Daniel -- Karma and other explanation traditions in a South Indian village / Paul G. Hiebert -- Astrology and fate : the Hindu and Muslim experiences / Judy F. Pugh -- Vrats : transformers of destiny / Susan S. Wadley -- Destiny and responsibility : karma in popular Hinduism / Lawrence A. Babb -- Incest recaptured : some contraries of karma in Balinese symbology / James A. Boon -- Irony in Tibetan notions of the good life / David Lichter, Lawrence Epstein -- Merit-transference in the kammic theory of popular Therevāda Buddhism / Charles F. Keyes -- Conclusion : karma, the uses of an idea / E. Valentine Daniel
- 1983
- Call number
- BL2015.K3K36 1983X
- Type
- Books
- Physical description
- ix, 313 pages 24 cm
- Place
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Asia del Sur
- Asia del Sudeste
- Asie méridionale
- Asie du Sud-Est
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Karma
- Karman
- Religious life and customs
- Vida y costumbres religiosas
- Discursos, ensayos, conferencias
- Vie religieuse
- South Asia--Religious life and customs
- Southeast Asia--Religious life and customs
- Record ID
- siris_sil_193934
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0