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S2E12: History and myth always live together: a conversation with Wendy Doniger

Historychatter Podcast

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I'm an Impostor, and I've Never Studied History.

i was trained as a sanscritist. I never studied history, and i never studied religion. So the irony is that i'm an impostor. I am breaking into fields for which i'm not really qualified. But you can learn a lot of things besides the things that you are oficially trained to do. When i worked on this book about horses, i knew lots and lots of stories about horses. What i had to learn in order to make the booka nd was what really happened with horses in india,. who imported horses, how much they cost, how they were used, what kind of horses there were and so forth. It's myth that i've

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