Introduction | |
Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: The Mth of Manu's Cups | |
The Wife in Ritual | |
The Wife and Other Ritual Actors | |
Situating the Wife in Ritual | |
Sexuality and Fertility--Symbolic Representations | |
Sexuality and Fertility--The Asvnamedha | |
Sexuality and Fertility--"Negative" Representations | |
Hospitality and Exchange Relations: The Soma Sacrifice | |
The Anxieties of Hospitality | |
Introduction--Oghavati and Ahalya | |
Hospitality and Hostly Perils | |
Manu's Cups Revisited I: The Cow, the Wife and the Power of the Guest | |
Manu's Cups Revisited II: The Vocabulary of Hospitality | |
Exploited Guests and Reluctant Receivers | |
Women and Marriage | |
Marriage and Exchange | |
Marriage by Capture | |
Maidenly Self-Determination | |
Finale | |
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