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J. C. Heesterman (1925–2014)

Author of The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual

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Works by J. C. Heesterman

The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual (1993) 13 copies

The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kinship, and Society (1985) 6 copies

The ancient Indian royal consecration : the rājasūya described according to the Yajus texts and annoted (2021) 1 copy

Ritual, state, and history in South Asia : essays in honour of J.C. Heesterman (1992) 1 copy

Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian, and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 34) (1968) 1 copy

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The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (1986) — Contributor — 14 copies

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anthropology (1) Consecration (1) ginu (1) Hinduism (2) India (1) my office (1) ritual (2) South Asia (1) Veda (1) Vedic (1) Yajurveda (1)

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Legal name: Heesterman, Johannes Cornelis
Birthdate: 1925-11-10
Date of death: 2014-04-14
Gender: male
Nationality: Netherlands
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Place of death: Leiden, Netherlands
Associated Place (for map): Netherlands

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ISBNs: 9

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