Redeeming the Kamasutra Doniger Wendy Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations a
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated.…
Specifikacia Redeeming the Kamasutra Doniger Wendy Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations a
The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement and inspires magazine articles that offer mattress-quaking sex styles such as the backstairs boogie and the spider web.In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. She reveals fascinating aspects of the Kamasutra as a guide to the art of living for the cosmopolitan beau monde of