THE RING OF TRUTH

Book ID/图书代码： 04332815B80369

English Summary/英文概要： Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings keep getting into stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) love? The cross-cultural distribution of the mythology of sexual rings is impressive--from ancient India and Greece through the Arab world to Shakespeare, Marie Antoinette, Wagner, nineteenth-century novels, Hollywood, and the De Beers advertising campaign that gave us the expression, "Diamonds Are Forever." Each chapter of The Ring of Truth, like a separate charm on a charm bracelet, considers a different constellation of stories: stories about rings lost and found in fish; forgetful husbands and clever wives; treacherous royal necklaces; fake jewelry and real women; modern women’s revolt against the hegemony of jewelry; and the clash between common sense and conventional narratives about rings. There are signet rings, betrothal rings, and magic rings of invisibility and/or memory. The stories are linked through a common cluster of meanings, such as love symbolized by the circular and unbroken shape of the ring: infinite, constant, eternal--a meaning that the stories often prove tragically false. While most of the rings in the stories originally belonged to a man, or were given to a woman by a man, Wendy Doniger shows that it is the women who are important in these stories, as they are the ones who put the jewelry to work in the plots.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为什么性和珠宝，尤其是戒指经常被联系在一起？为什么戒指会不断地在关于婚姻与通奸、爱情与背叛、失去与获得、身份与伪装的故事中出现？是什么神奇的力量让戒指象征着真实的（也可能是不真实的）爱？从古印度、古希腊到阿拉伯世界，从莎士比亚、玛丽皇后、瓦格纳到19世纪小说、好莱坞以及DeBeers流传甚广的“钻石恒久远，一颗永流传”这样的广告推广，戒指神话的跨文化分布令人印象深刻。书中的每个章节都像是手链上的不同挂饰，讲述了不同的故事：在鱼肚里失而复得的戒指的故事；健忘的丈夫和聪明的妻子；不忠的皇室项链；假珠宝和真女人；现代女性反抗珠宝霸权；常识和传统戒指故事之间的冲突。有戒指、订婚戒指、能够隐身或存储记忆的魔法戒指等等。这些故事通过一系列共同的意义联系在一起，如以圆形和不间断的形状来象征爱情的无限、长久和永恒。虽然在这些故事中，戒指的最初拥有者是男性，或者由男性赠送给了女性，但作者想要表达的观点是，在这些故事中，真正起到关键性作用的还是女性。（LYR）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Wendy Doniger，芝加哥大学宗教历史专业的杰出教授，著有40多部作品。

Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of over 40 books, including On Hinduism and Redeeming the Kamasutra.

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