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Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi's Degrees

Masters Dravidology University of Bologna
Bachelors Anthropology University of Florence

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According to Wikipedia, Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi is an Italian anthropologist and dravidologist who has done field studies in India, mainly in the Tamil Nadu state. Born in 1931 in Germany, she studied modern languages at the University of Mainz and did a Ph.D. at the University of Rome in 1968. Between 1985 and 1991, she worked briefly at the University of Venice, University of Bologna, and University of Rome. She taught Tamil language and literature at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" and also worked as a professor of Asian Studies at the university.

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Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi's Published Works

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On Evolutionary Epistemology (1982) (742)
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (42)
Food Avoidances of Pregnant Women in Tamilnad (2018) (25)
Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings (1977) (20)
Food Avoidances at Puberty and Menstruation in Tamilnad (2018) (13)
Food Avoidances during the Puerperium and Lactation in Tamilnad (2018) (11)
Letter: Hunger in Mauritania. (1974) (11)
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (7)
Tamil jokes and the polythetic-prototype approach to humor (1990) (6)
The self-milking cow and the bleeding liṅgam : criss-cross of motifs in Indian temple legends (1987) (6)
Language, Thought, and Tamil Verbal Humor (1986) (5)
Mandalas and Mesoamerican Pecked Circles [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (4)
Women's Pollution Periods in Tamilnad (India) * (2016) (4)
Cool fire: Culture-specific themes in Tamil short stories (1988) (3)
The polythetic network of Tamil folk stories (1997) (3)
Abhiseka, the Indian Rite that Defies Definition (1981) (2)
Lactose malabsorption reconsidered (1980) (2)
The Cultural Uses of Food in Modern Tamil Literature (1985) (2)
The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folktales (2002) (2)
The "incomprehensible" writer : Tamil culture in Ramamirtham's work and worldview (1995) (1)
The mental monkey: The mind in modern Tamil literature (2002) (1)
The culture-freez construction of emotion : a Tamil writer's emotion similes and metaphors (1995) (1)
More on Salt Taboos (1978) (1)
Rites and beliefs in modern India (1990) (1)
The taste of laughter : aspects of Tamil humour (1998) (1)
Strands Versus Structure in the Theory of Myth (1983) (1)
Hindu mythology in Tamil figurative speech (1994) (1)
" True creatinine " of blood. (1935) (0)
On the Female Lingam (1982) (0)
A Response to Naithani's Review (1998) (0)
Further Notes on the Female Lingam (1981) (0)
If Whorf had known Tiruvalluvar? Universalism and cultural relativism in a famous work of ancient tamil literature (1992) (0)
Glimpses of the Indian village in anthropology and literature (2000) (0)
On Lactose Tolerance and the Selective Paradigm (1991) (0)
More on the Idea of the Female Lingam (1983) (0)
On Paradox and Myth (1981) (0)
Christian Teaching in Hindu Environment (2000) (0)
PROTOTYPICAL ASPECTS OF EMOTIONS IN TAMIL LITERATURE (2003) (0)
On the Autonomy of Symbols (1980) (0)
Lesser Known Faiths (1993) (0)
Water in modern Tamil literature (1997) (0)
Tradition and Change in Post-Independence Tamil Litarature (1997) (0)
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Food is good to laugh: A Tamil comic view of food (1990) (0)
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Hindu rites in modern Tamil literature (2003) (0)
Reflections of Hindu mythology in Tamil folktales (2014) (0)

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