Professor of Religion Alf Hiltebeitel Epics sku-25345939

Professor of Religion Alf Hiltebeitel sku-25345939 is listed in Religion & Religious Studies Books as the paperback Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits. Drawing on his fieldwork, literary theory and cultural studies, Hiltebeitel compares the oral tradition of the south Indian Draupadi cult and five regional martial oral epics with one another and with the Sanskrit Mahabharata and Ramayana.

He examines shared subtexts, changes to classical characters and plots that reflect local history and religion, and oral traditions among medieval Rajput military culture, Dalits and Muslims. This is the third volume in his study of the Draupadi cult.

Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking the Mahabharata (Volume Four).