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Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India Whitaker, Jarrod L. (Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions, Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions, Wake Forest University)
Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India
Whitaker, Jarrod L. (Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions, Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions, Wake Forest University)
Jarrod Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rigveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life involves the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 13, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199755707 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 167 × 243 × 21 mm · 498 g |