A lively account of the Ban Yatra; a circular pilgrimage that takes place in the northern Indian land of Braj; this anthropological chronicle offers an appealing mixture of personal anecdote; religious theory; Indian history; and tales of the gods. Basing his work on personal experience in the field; as well as a combination of primary sources in Sanskrit; Hindi; and Bengali-many untranslated and unstudied in Western languages-and a wide range of secondaryliterature; Haberman places the pilgrimage in its cultural and historical context; interweaving his account with retellings of the tales of Krishna around which the journey revolves. The first thorough study of this kind of cyclical Hindu pilgrimage; Journey through the Twelve Forests will interest anystudent of Southeast Asian culture and pilgrimage.
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