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"""Overall, this is a highly readable and informative study that should interest anthropologists, historians of religion, Indologists, and scholars of orality, literacy, and knowledge systems in South Asia."" Finnian M.M. Gerety in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2/2018, 374-376 ""Embodying the Vedas is a rare book indeed, because few scholars possess the interdisciplinary skills necessary to execute such an ambitious project. Its rarity underscores its importance, however, for despite well over a century of scholarly work on the Vedic tradition, there has been precious little theorization of the very thing which has allowed the tradition to survive three millennia: its pedagogy."" Caley Charles Smith in: Reading Religion, https: //readingreligion.org/books/embodying-vedas (26.02.2021) ""Fond�e sur des observations pr�cises mais situ�es et interpr�t�es dans le cadre g�n�ral de l'hindouisme, r�dig�e avec clart�, cette enqu�te apporte du neuf. Il serait int�ressant de la rapprocher d'autres formes de transmission de la Parole ou du Livre, en particulier dans le juda�sme et dans l'islam. Plus largement, elle offre mati�re � r�flexion sur les relations entre parole et rite, �criture et communaut� croyante."" J. Scheuer in: Nouvelle revue th�ologique 140/3 (2018), 511 ""La combinazione di prospettiva etnografica e analisi testuale, che Larios � in grado di proporre grazie alla sua duplice formazione, rende il testo pregevole e in qualche modo unico, capace di rispondere a domande centrali degli studi storico-religiosi moderni: come il passato si combina con il presente e come questo rapporto si sviluppa nella quotidianit� dell'induismo contemporaneo."" Pietro Chierichetti in: Humanitas 73(2/2018), 339-341 ""With detailed ethnographic work and perceptive theoretical discussions, Embodying the Vedas is essential reading for anyone interested in the Vedas, modern Vedic practice, Brahmin identity, and Hindu religious education."" Charles S. Preston in: International Journal of Hindu Studies 24/2020, 419-420"

Fondee sur des observations precises mais situees et interpretees dans le cadre general de l'hindouisme, redigee avec clarte, cette enquete apporte du neuf. Il serait interessant de la rapprocher d'autres formes de transmission de la Parole ou du Livre, en particulier dans le judaisme et dans l'islam. Plus largement, elle offre matiere a reflexion sur les relations entre parole et rite, Ecriture et communaute croyante. J. Scheuer in: Nouvelle revue theologique 140/3 (2018), 511

Overall, this is a highly readable and informative study that should interest anthropologists, historians of religion, Indologists, and scholars of orality, literacy, and knowledge systems in South Asia. Finnian M.M. Gerety in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2/2018, 374-376 Embodying the Vedas is a rare book indeed, because few scholars possess the interdisciplinary skills necessary to execute such an ambitious project. Its rarity underscores its importance, however, for despite well over a century of scholarly work on the Vedic tradition, there has been precious little theorization of the very thing which has allowed the tradition to survive three millennia: its pedagogy. Caley Charles Smith in: Reading Religion, https: //readingreligion.org/books/embodying-vedas (26.02.2021) Fondee sur des observations precises mais situees et interpretees dans le cadre general de l'hindouisme, redigee avec clarte, cette enquete apporte du neuf. Il serait interessant de la rapprocher d'autres formes de transmission de la Parole ou du Livre, en particulier dans le judaisme et dans l'islam. Plus largement, elle offre matiere a reflexion sur les relations entre parole et rite, Ecriture et communaute croyante. J. Scheuer in: Nouvelle revue theologique 140/3 (2018), 511 La combinazione di prospettiva etnografica e analisi testuale, che Larios e in grado di proporre grazie alla sua duplice formazione, rende il testo pregevole e in qualche modo unico, capace di rispondere a domande centrali degli studi storico-religiosi moderni: come il passato si combina con il presente e come questo rapporto si sviluppa nella quotidianita dell'induismo contemporaneo. Pietro Chierichetti in: Humanitas 73(2/2018), 339-341 With detailed ethnographic work and perceptive theoretical discussions, Embodying the Vedas is essential reading for anyone interested in the Vedas, modern Vedic practice, Brahmin identity, and Hindu religious education. Charles S. Preston in: International Journal of Hindu Studies 24/2020, 419-420

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Borayin Larios, University of Vienna, Austria.

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