Deryck O Lodrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deryck O Lodrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deryck |
| FAMILY NAME | O Lodrick |
| SIGNATURE | LODRICK D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ahimsa, Man and Animals: Aspects of Religion in the Cultural Landscape of Western India
The chapter examines features in the cultural landscape of western India that reflect the impact of ahimsa on man's attitudes towards animals and suggests a rationale for their continued existence in modern India. It explores the contention that ahimsa ultimately derives its strength as a religious philosophy from the protection it affords cattle under the general rubric of the sacred cow doctrine. Although regional differences exist in attitudes…
Symbol and Sustenance: Cattle in South Asian Culture
Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja: Two Krishna Festivals of India
Cattle festivals and cattle rites are much neglected elements of the Indian cattle complex. This study examines Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja, two cattle festivals identified with the cult of Krishna. Although Krishna assumes several aspects in Hinduism, the pastoral Krishna is one of the most popular forms of the deity. Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja are important festivals in Braj, the traditional homeland of the cowherd god. Their origins can b…
A Cattle Fair in Rajasthan: The Kharwa Mela
Sacred Cows, Sacred Places: Origins and Survivals of Animal Homes in India
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India: The Uses of Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply]
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
On Religion and Milk Bovines in an Urban Indian Setting
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India: The Uses of Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
Sacred Cows, Sacred Places: Origins and Survivals of Animal Homes in India
On Religion and Milk Bovines in an Urban Indian Setting
Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja: Two Krishna Festivals of India
Cattle festivals and cattle rites are much neglected elements of the Indian cattle complex. This study examines Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja, two cattle festivals identified with the cult of Krishna. Although Krishna assumes several aspects in Hinduism, the pastoral Krishna is one of the most popular forms of the deity. Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja are important festivals in Braj, the traditional homeland of the cowherd god. Their origins can b…
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply]
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
A Cattle Fair in Rajasthan: The Kharwa Mela
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
On Religion and Milk Bovines in an Urban Indian Setting
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply]
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India: The Uses of Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
Sacred Cows, Sacred Places: Origins and Survivals of Animal Homes in India
A Cattle Fair in Rajasthan: The Kharwa Mela
Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja: Two Krishna Festivals of India
Cattle festivals and cattle rites are much neglected elements of the Indian cattle complex. This study examines Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja, two cattle festivals identified with the cult of Krishna. Although Krishna assumes several aspects in Hinduism, the pastoral Krishna is one of the most popular forms of the deity. Gopashtami and Govardhan Puja are important festivals in Braj, the traditional homeland of the cowherd god. Their origins can b…
Symbol and Sustenance: Cattle in South Asian Culture
Ahimsa, Man and Animals: Aspects of Religion in the Cultural Landscape of Western India
The chapter examines features in the cultural landscape of western India that reflect the impact of ahimsa on man's attitudes towards animals and suggests a rationale for their continued existence in modern India. It explores the contention that ahimsa ultimately derives its strength as a religious philosophy from the protection it affords cattle under the general rubric of the sacred cow doctrine. Although regional differences exist in attitudes…
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Livestock Management and Performance Improvement (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Hinduism (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)