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Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity?Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces

Title : Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China
Author : Megan Bryson
Language : en
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