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Strong Arms and Drinking Strength - Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India (Hardcover, New)
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Strong Arms and Drinking Strength - Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India (Hardcover, New)
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Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of
male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing
that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained
promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The
Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three
gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma,
who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage
soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which
poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The
dominant image of Indra is that of a highly glamorized, violent,
and powerful Aryan male; the three gods represent the ideals of
manhood.
Whitaker finds that the Rgvedic poet-priests employed a fascinating
range of poetic and performative strategies--some explicit, others
very subtle--to construct their masculine ideology, while
justifying it as the most valid way for men to live. Poet-priests
naturalized this ideology by encoding it within a man's sense of
his body and physical self. Rgvedic ritual rhetoric and practices
thus encode specific male roles, especially the role of man as
warrior, while embedding these roles in a complex network of
social, economic, and political relationships.
Strong Arms and Drinking Strength is the first book in English to
examine the relationship between Rgvedic gods, ritual practices,
and the identities and expectations placed on men in ancient
India."
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