Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls : Popular Goddess
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal JUNE McDANIEL OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls This page intentionally left blank Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal june mcdaniel 1 2004 1 Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜o Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright ᭧ 2004 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McDaniel, June. Offering flowers, feeding skulls : popular goddess worship in West Bengal / June McDaniel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-19-516790-2; ISBN 0-19-516791-0 (pbk.) 1. Kali (Hindu deity)—Cult—India—West Bengal. 2. Shaktism—India—West Bengal. 3. West Bengal (India)— Religious life and customs. I. Title. BL1225.K33 W36 2003 294.5'514'095414—dc21 2003009828 987654321 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Acknowledgments Thanks go to the Fulbright Program and its representatives, whose Senior Scholar Research Fellowship made it possible for me to do this research in West Bengal, and to the College of Charleston, who granted me a year’s leave for field research.
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