How Long to Read Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India

How Long Does it Take to Read Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India by Jarrod L. Whitaker Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions Wake Forest University

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Description

Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma, who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The dominant image of Indra is that of a highly glamorized, violent, and powerful Aryan male; the three gods represent the ideals of manhood. Whitaker finds that the Rgvedic poet-priests employed a fascinating range of poetic and performative strategies--some explicit, others very subtle--to construct their masculine ideology, while justifying it as the most valid way for men to live. Poet-priests naturalized this ideology by encoding it within a man's sense of his body and physical self. Rgvedic ritual rhetoric and practices thus encode specific male roles, especially the role of man as warrior, while embedding these roles in a complex network of social, economic, and political relationships. Strong Arms and Drinking Strength is the first book in English to examine the relationship between Rgvedic gods, ritual practices, and the identities and expectations placed on men in ancient India.

How long is Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India?

Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India by Jarrod L. Whitaker Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions Wake Forest University is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India aloud.

What Reading Level is Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India?

Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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