Citation: Catrien Notermans, Sina Pfister. Water and Gender in Recreating Family Life with Maa Ganga: The Confluence of Nature and Culture in a North Indian River Pilgrimage[J]. AIMS Geosciences, 2016, 2(4): 286-301. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2016.4.286
[1] | Lochtefeld J (2010) God’s gateway: Identity and meaning in a Hindu pilgrimage place. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
[2] | Parry J (1994) Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
[3] | Haberman D (2006) River of love in an age of pollution: The Yamuna river of Northern India. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press. |
[4] | Feldhaus A (1995) Water and womanhood: Religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
[5] | Maddrell A, Dora V, Scafi A, et al (2015) Christian pilgrimage, landscape and heritage: Journeying to the sacred. New York, London: Routledge, pp. 10–11. |
[6] | Descola P and Pálsson G (1996) Nature and society: Anthropological perspectives. London: Routledge. |
[7] | Hastrup K (2014) Anthropology and nature. New York: Routledge. |
[8] | Ingold T (2000) The perception of the environment: Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. London: Routledge. |
[9] | Strang V (2004) The meaning of water. Oxford: Berg, p. 5. |
[10] | Hastrup K and Hastrup F (2016) Waterworlds: Anthropology in fluid environments. New York: Berghahn, p. 6. |
[11] | Ortner S (1974) Is female to male as natures is to culture? In: Women, culture and society, edited by M Rosaldo and L Lamphere. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 68–87. |
[12] | Harlan L and Courtright P (1995) From the margins of Hindu marriage: Essays on gender, religion and culture. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
[13] | Pintchman T (2007) Women’s lives, women’s rituals in the Hindu tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 4. |
[14] | Coleman S and Eade J (2004) Reframing pilgrimage: Cultures in motion. London: Routledge, pp. 2–3. |
[15] | Gold AG (2000) Fruitful journeys: The ways of Rajasthani pilgrims. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. |
[16] | Notermans C (2007) Loss and Healing: A Marian pilgrimage in secular Dutch society. Ethnology 46: 217–233. |
[17] | Notermans C and Jansen W (2011) Ex-votos in Lourdes: Contested materiality of miraculous healings. Material Religion 7: 168–193. doi: 10.2752/175183411X13070210372823 |
[18] | Eck D (1996) Ganga: The goddess Ganges in Hindu sacred geography. In: Devi: Goddesses of India, edited by J Hawley and D Wulff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 137–153, p. 140. |
[19] | Pfister S (2013) Liquid love and endless mercy: The mediating role of the holy river Ganga during pilgrimage and at home. Unpublished Bachelor thesis, Nijmegen: Radboud University. |
[20] | Strang V (2004) The meaning of water. Oxford: Berg, p. 53. |
[21] | Strang V (2004) The meaning of water. Oxford: Berg, p. 62. |
[22] | Strang V (2008) Blue, green and red: Combining energies in defence of water. In: Deep blue: Critical reflections on nature, religion and water, edited by S Shaw and A Francis. London: Equinox, 253–274, p. 263. |
[23] | Gold AG (2000) Fruitful journeys: The ways of Rajasthani pilgrims. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, p. 98. |
[24] | Parry J (1994) Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 152. |
[25] | Parry J (1994) Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 151–152. |
[26] | Gold AG (2000) Fruitful journeys: The ways of Rajasthani pilgrims. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, p. 79. |
[27] | Gold AG (2000) Fruitful journeys: The ways of Rajasthani pilgrims. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, p. 48. |
[28] | Gold AG (2000) Fruitful journeys: The ways of Rajasthani pilgrims. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, p. 90. |
[29] | Wilson L (2003) The living and the dead: Social dimensions of death in South Asian religions. Albany: State University of New York Press. |
[30] | Parry J (1994), Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 168. |