Visnu's Children
Prenatal life-cycle rituals in South India - DVD
2009
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1., Aufl.
Harrassowitz Verlag (Hersteller)
978-3-447-05853-7 (ISBN)
Harrassowitz Verlag (Hersteller)
978-3-447-05853-7 (ISBN)
The ritual occasions represented on this DVD are enactments of the prenatal life-cycle ritual visnubali, "the offering to Visnu", which is specific to the Vaikhanasas, a group of South Indian Brahmin priests in Visnu temples. This ritual is performed in the eighth month of pregnancy. It enacts and marks a transformation of the unborn child. Visnubali, "the offering to the god Visnu", makes the unborn a Visnu devotee, and confers on it its future right to act as a temple priest in South Indian Visnu temples. The ritual is understood as a prenatal initiation, performed by the god Visnu himself: Visnu transforms the unborn into his own child.
The DVD cannot be run on a stand-alone NTSC DVD player. Original sound with English subtitles.
This DVD is also available as part of the book publication:
Hüsken, Ute: Visnu's Children. Prenatal life-Cycle rituals in South India. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-447-05854-4
The DVD cannot be run on a stand-alone NTSC DVD player. Original sound with English subtitles.
This DVD is also available as part of the book publication:
Hüsken, Ute: Visnu's Children. Prenatal life-Cycle rituals in South India. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-447-05854-4
| Reihe/Serie | Ethno-Indology ; 9,2 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Wiesbaden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 185 mm |
| Gewicht | 120 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
| Schlagworte | Brahmane • Brahmene • DVD, Video / Ethnologie/Völkerkunde • Ethnologie • Hardcover, Softcover / Ethnologie/Völkerkunde • Indien /Ethnologie • Indologie • Ritual • Sanskrit • Schwangerschaft • Visnu |
| ISBN-10 | 3-447-05853-6 / 3447058536 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-447-05853-7 / 9783447058537 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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