University Of Michigan, Centre For South And Southeast Asian Studies Fertility And Family Life In An Indian Village

Fertility and Family Life in an Indian Village (Volume 10) (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia)

Politics & Social Sciences

Poeffenbeger, Thomas

Poffenberger, Thomas

Social Sciences

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<p>"This study will related various stories and episodes of the Buddha's many incarnations, including his final one, as they appear in the literature and art of Asia. On the one hand, they represent a vital interest in the Buddha as a teacher and example of righteous behavior, which is central to Hinayana, or Theravada [Doctrine of the elders], Buddhism. On the other hand, the miraculous content of so many of these stories reveals an aspect of the other main branch of Buddhism, Mahayana [The great vehicle] Buddhism. The stories about the past lives of the Buddha are called Jatakas or Birth Stories."<br> -- from Introduction (p. 2)</p>

The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia (Volume 20) (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia)

Cummings, Mary

Arts & Photography

There are several cookbooks available now, including a few with "coffee table chic."  So why another?*  Recipes have been modified so they can be made from ingredients available in most Western supermarkets.*  Book designed for those for whom time is short.*  Recipes mostly meatless and the ingredients used are relatively cheap.

Beyond Curry: Quick and Easy Indian Cooking Featuring Cuisine from Maharashtra State (Special Publication / Center for South and Southeast Asian S)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Dandekar, Hemalata

Regional & International

<p><div>This book attempts to portray the fine-grained impacts of industrialization and the availability of work in a major city on a single village, called Sugao, located some 150 miles from Bombay. It describes some of the effects of macro-level, "top-down," development planning on a village microcosm as observed from the vantage point of the village itself. As far as it is possible for an outsider to do so, Dandekar has attempted to understand and convey the perceptions of some of the people she got to know well in Sugao.</div> <div>Includes maps, diagrams, and photos. It is excellent supplementary text for courses dealing with development, rural society, planning, rural-urban migrations, or women's issues.</div></p>

Men to Bombay, Women at Home: Urban Influence on Sugao Village, Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1942–1982 (Volume 28) (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia)

History

Americas

Asia

Critical Studies in Indian Grammarians I: The Theory of Homogeneity (Savar?ya) (Michigan Series In South And Southeast Asian Languages And Linguistics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Deshpande, Madhav

Regional U.S.

<i>Samskrta-Subodhini: A Sanskrit Primer</i> marks the culmination of Professor Deshpande's experience of teaching Sanskrit at the University of Michigan for over twenty-five years. Tested in classes at Michigan and elsewhere and successively improved for over twenty years, the teaching materials in the book now offer an effective tool to learn and teach Sanskrit. It aims at teaching Sanskrit as a language, rather than as a religious or mystical entity. It also simplifies the process of learning Sanskrit by dissociating this language-learning process from the heavy burdens imposed both by the tradition of Indo-European linguistics and the tradition of indigenous Sanskrit grammarians in India. By treating Sanskrit as a productive language, rather than as a dead language merely to be deciphered, the book represents a significant advance over the traditional Western approach to the study of Sanskrit.<br>Work on this book began in 1976, and now almost two generations of Professor Deshpande's students have used successively improved versions. The book's examples include many modified versions of classical Sanskrit passages from epic texts such as <i>The Mahabharata</i> and <i>The Ramayana</i>. The book also contains examples from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, as well as samples of Sanskrit poetry and satire.<br>Madhav M. Deshpande is Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, where he has been on the faculty since 1972. His research relates to the fields of Paninian linguistics, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics, as well as the cultural and linguistic history of India. Besides his research publications, Professor Deshpande has participated in Sastric and literary debates in Sanskrit and has also published Sanskrit poems and plays.<br>

Samskrta-Subodhini: A Sanskrit Primer (Volume 47) (Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia)

Ancient Civilizations

Drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, this volume approaches ancient India both historically and geographically. The primary temporal focus lies in India's "Early Historic" period, from the mid-first millennium BCE through the mid-first millennium CE. The geographic focus is shifted landward rather than seaward and is centered on South Asia rather than the Mediterranean. Contributors examine power and material culture; Mediterranean image making, which looks at Greek and Roman understandings of India; and language and otherness, which explores Indian knowledge and understandings of outsiders. The volume as a whole directs us to the complex webs and networks that throughout Indian history have linked South Asians to each other and to the world beyond the subcontinent. A very wide world indeed.Contributors are Shinu A. Abraham, Madhav Deshpande, Grant Parker, Alka Patel, Himanshu P. Ray, James Romm , Martha Ann Selby, and Thomas R. Trautmann.Grant Parker is Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University.Carla M. Sinopoli is Professor of Anthropology and Curator and Director, Museum of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan.

Ancient India in Its Wider World

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