Kama Sutra

Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar

• Paperback | Spaans
• El Kamasutra es la obra dedicada al amor erótico más famosa y antigua de la India. No se trata, como por lo general se suele creer, de un libro que se... Lees meer

The Implied Spider

Wendy Doniger

• Paperback | Engels | American Lectures on the History of Religions
• At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when hu... Lees meer

Redeeming the Kamasutra

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Kamasutra , composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, an... Lees meer

The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & the Lady Who Shows Her Love

Harsha

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 17
• King Harsha, who reigned over the kingdom of Kanauj from 606 to 647 CE, composed two Sanskrit plays about the mythical figures of King Udayana, his qu... Lees meer

La trampa de la yegua

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Spaans
• Buena parte de los manuscritos del Kamasutra, el tratado sobre el arte erótico compuesto en India en torno al siglo III d. C., estaban miniados; desgr... Lees meer

An American Girl in India:

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Twenty-two-year-oldWendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963, on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali. It was her first visit to the cou... Lees meer

The Ring of Truth

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betr... Lees meer

On Hinduism

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this magisterial volume of essays , Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself f... Lees meer

The Rig Veda

• Paperback | Engels
• The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, ... Lees meer

On Hinduism

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• On Hinduism contains a list of related essays that aim to explore the various concerns that are connected to Hinduism. These matters are as relevant t... Lees meer

Hindu Myths

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata , Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. ... Lees meer

Kamasutra

Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partn... Lees meer

Greek and Egyptian Mythologies

Yves Bonnefoy

• Paperback | Engels
• The seventy-two entries in this volume explore, among other topics, the history, geography, and religion of Greece, Plato's mythology and philosophy, ... Lees meer

Hindu Myths

Wendy Doniger

• E-book | Engels
• Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. H... Lees meer

Going Forth by Day

Zahi A. Hawass, Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover
• Features more than 100 watercolours on papyrus, this book explores the themes of love, hope, fear and life. It presents a modern vision of the ancient... Lees meer

The Implied Spider

Wendy Doniger

• Paperback | Engels | American Lectures on the History of Religions
• Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical,... Lees meer

The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as th... Lees meer

Le Kama-sutra de Bikaner

Wendy Doniger

• Paperback | Frans
• «Il était d'usage - et ce sans doute dès l'époque du texte lui-même - d'illustrer les manuscrits du Kâma Sûtra , mais aucun de ces exemples primitifs ... Lees meer

After the War

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels
• After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this after... Lees meer

The Implied Spider

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels | American Lectures on the History of Religions
• Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the Hebrew Bible to the "Bhagavad Gita," Doniger crafts a new lens for examining other cultures, and finding in t... Lees meer

Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares

Wendy Doniger

• Hardcover | Engels | Richard Lectures
• Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers--who could not aff... Lees meer

The Rig Veda

Wendy Doniger

• E-book | Engels
• The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, ... Lees meer

The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was

Wendy Doniger

• Paperback | Engels
• Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as th... Lees meer

The Hindus

Wendy Doniger, Doniger

• Paperback | Engels
• An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions fr... Lees meer