{"product_id":"9780190267117-the-ring-of-truth-and-other-myths-of-sex-and-jewelry","title":"Doniger Wendy (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Of The History Of Religions Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Of The History Of Religions University Of Chicago) - The Ring Of Truth And Other Myths Of Sex And Jewelry -","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: According to north Indian legend there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her but failed; he then planted his signet ring in her bed to trick her fianc into thinking that he'd spoiled her chastity. Years later the minister learned of the King's trickery and decided to beg the forgiveness of the woman he had refused to marry - - however on his way to see her he fell dead. The Shah's daughter found out about his death and her own vindication in his eyes and went to lie with him on his funeral pyre - - the site of their cremation is now a temple where the goddess Shila Mata is worshipped. The themes of this story - - the spiteful king the innocent woman trickery adultery (in this case presumed) and above all the ring symbolizing a sexual encounter - - reverberate across time and cultures so much so that you might think you've heard this story before even if you've never heard of the goddess whose origin it describes. Why are sex and jewelry particularly rings so often connected? Why do rings keep appearing in stories about marriage and adultery love and betrayal loss and recovery identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or as the case may be untrue) love? In seeking answers to these questions each chapter of this book like a separate charm on a charm bracelet considers a different constellation of stories. Most of the rings in the stories originally belong to men; indeed just about all the jewelry that women have they get from men. But it is the women who put the jewelry to work in the plots and that is what this book is about. Beginning with a series of her own personal anecdotes about jewelry Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings. The book does not move in a linear fashion but expands outward as if from a prism touching on ancient Sanskrit myth Celtic lore fairytales literature and modern song lyrics to form a collection of stories as multifaceted as a diamond. The stories are all different but linked through a common cluster of meanings: the mutual imitation of real and fake legal and illegal marital and extra - marital jewelry; the circular form of rings and bracelets miming the circle of eternity which persists in the face of human ephemera. The Ring of Truth tells the story of jewelry that preserves (and sometimes erases) true and false memories making promises that come true and that lie.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Ring Of Truth And Other Myths Of Sex And Jewelry\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Doniger Wendy (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Of The History Of Religions Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Of The History Of Religions University Of Chicago)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780190267117\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 424 Pages, 10 B\/W Illus\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/1\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Gender Studies, Gender Groups","brand":"Doniger Wendy (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Of The History Of Religions Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Of The History Of Religions University Of Chicago)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49591745347889,"sku":"IN-G-9780190267117","price":38.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780190267117-the-ring-of-truth-and-other-myths-of-sex-and-jewelry","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}