How to become a Brahman: The construction of varṇa as social place in the Mahābhārata's legends of Viśvāmitra.
This article investigates varna as an embodied and spatialized social practice in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, with a focus on the epic subnarratives of Viśvāmitra, the legendary king who became a Brahman. Adopting a post-Dumontian position that the articulation of social status is always a political a...
| Publicado en: | Acta Orientalia Vilnensia Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 41 - 68 |
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Vilnius University
2007
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