Book Review Caterina Guenzi (2021) Words of Destiny
This work, a revised translation of the author's 2013 volume Le discours du destin, is a welcome addition to the as yet meagre English-language scholarship on astrology in India. Based chiefly on fieldwork in Banaras, but with detours into Sanskrit textual sources, it presents a window into the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2021
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Nidān
Year: 2021, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 98-105 |
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Sanskrit canon
B Book review B Sanskrit textual sources B Astrology in India |
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| Summary: | This work, a revised translation of the author's 2013 volume Le discours du destin, is a welcome addition to the as yet meagre English-language scholarship on astrology in India. Based chiefly on fieldwork in Banaras, but with detours into Sanskrit textual sources, it presents a window into the practice of contemporary Indian astrologers, the world view underlying it, and the symbolic universe shared by astrologers and their clients. , |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2021.1 |