Megan Bryson: 1 book
Goddess on the Frontier
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
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...
