| Moebius Trip: Digressions from India's Highways Contributor(s): Thadani, Giti (Author) |
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ISBN: 1876756543 ISBN-13: 9781876756543 Publisher: Spinifex Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: Fueled by 15 years of road trips, this traveling history follows the search for relics, lost temples, and sacred sites that comprise the archaeology of lesbians in ancient India. While exploring the places, stories, and people of India, the author goes beneath the surface of more recent patriarchal cultures that have neglected or desecrated icons of the sacred feminine to reveal the marvels and mythology nearly forgotten by history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 934 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.08" W x 7.78" (0.42 lbs) 173 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A travelogue, this book is at once a road journal, a collection of musings and a cry for respect and preservation of one of the world's oldest civilisations. The author, who has been driving her jeep around India for 15 years, reveals her passion for architecture, sculpture, mythology, iconography and artistic heritage in this book. |