Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded…
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This volume makes a contribution to understanding pilgrimage, not as a transient activity at the margins of daily life, but as an event grounded firmly in the physical, symbolic and social experience of the everyday world. The vital relationship between pilgrimage and society is…
Considered a classic of Gujarati literatur ... chronicle of a Himalayan pilgrimag ... to roam the vast landscape of Indian history and culture.
Une source inconnue indique : "Guest is God is an ethnography of the Indian pilgrimage site of Pushkar, which welcomes two million visitors each year. To locals, Pushkar is more than just a gathering place for pilgrims, tourists, and hippies--it is where Brahma, the creator god,…