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WHITAKER, J. L., Strong Arms and Drinking Strength. Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India. Oxford University Press, 2011. 240p. Hardback. This important book cuts sensitively to the core of the construction of masculinity in Vedic family, clan, and tribal society. From early hymns that reflect expansion through seasonal migrations to the hegemonic patriarchy embodied in state formation that closes the Rgvedic canon, Whitaker details a consistent androcentric ideology that lauds strength, intimidation, and violence through images of the hyper-masculine body and soma drinking of the god Indra. A needed but rare convergence of philology with gender, body, and ritual studies. Alf Hiltebeitel, Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences, The George Washington University (Publisher's information). € 142.67 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780199755707