Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GHost (His Enemies, Her Rivals: Gendered Expressions of Hostility in Ancient Indian Ritual Speech and Action, 1000 B.C.E.)

How dangerous is speech? Around 1000 B.C.E. in Northern India, priests of the semi-nomadic Vedic peoples (or “Āryas” as they called themselves), trained in a sophisticated tradition of oral poetic composition, used their art not only to praise their gods and wealthy...