"Review: Oh Terrifying Mother: Sexuality, Violence, and Worship of the Goddess Kali by Sarah Caldwell" by Kathleen Young

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Review: Oh Terrifying Mother: Sexuality, Violence, and Worship of the Goddess Kali by Sarah Caldwell

Journal of Anthropological Research (2003)

Kathleen Young, Western Washington University

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Abstract

Sarah Caldwell has successfully chronicled an erudite analysis of a culturally specific ritual tantric performance to the Hindu goddess Kali in an "ethnography that would recapture the goal of empathy," as she intended.

Keywords

Sarah Caldwell,
Kali

Disciplines

History,
Religion and
Anthropology

Publication Date

Fall 2003

DOI

10.1086/jar.59.3.3631525

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Published by the University of Chicago Press

Citation Information

Kathleen Young, "Oh Terrifying Mother: Sexuality, Violence, and Worship of the Goddess Kali. Sarah Caldwell ," Journal of Anthropological Research 59, no. 3 (Autumn, 2003): 417-420.