Feeding the dead : (Record no. 344548)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20210701122523.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 130517s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2013012872 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199896431 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199917471 (cover) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | a-ii--- |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.5388 |
| Item number | SAY |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sayers, Matthew R. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Feeding the dead : |
| Remainder of title | ancestor worship in ancient India / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Matthew R. Sayers. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2013] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 187 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-183) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Ancestral rites in the early Vedas -- Solemn ancestral rites -- Domestic rice-ball sacrifice to the ancestors -- Sraddha-rite -- Ancestral rites in the Buddhist literature -- Soteriology -- Mediation. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Feeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition. Most prior works on ancestor worship have done little to address the question of how shraddha, the paradigmatic ritual of ancestor worship up to the present day, came to be. Matthew R. Sayers argues that the development of shraddha is central to understanding the shift from Vedic to Classical Hindu modes of religious behavior. Central to this transition is the discursive construction of the role of the religious expert in mediating between the divine and the human actor. Both Hindu and Buddhist traditions draw upon popular religious practices to construct a new tradition. Sayers argues that the definition of a religious expert that informs religiosity in the Common Era is grounded in the redefinition of ancestral rites in the Grhyasutras. Beyond making more clear the much misunderstood history of ancestor worship in India, this book addressing the serious question about how and why religion in India changed so radically in the last half of the first millennium BCE. The redefinition of the role of religious expert is hugely significant for understanding that change. This book ties together the oldest ritual texts with the customs of ancestor worship that underlie and inform medieval and contemporary practice. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ancestor worship |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Śrāddha (Hindu rite) |
| General subdivision | History. |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Not Missing | Dewey Decimal Classification | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2021-07-01 | 294.5388 SAY | 163342 | 2021-07-01 | 2021-07-01 | Books |