This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.
Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals
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"...an extraordinary study in ritual structure, not just in terms of "form" or of issues of the relative ubiquity or uniqueness of Tamil practice, but in how these structures serve as catalysts for wrenching expressions of grief, lament, and life-altering loss."--History of Religions
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Isabelle Nabokov is at Princeton University.
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Suresh was a member of the Tenpalli caste who cultivated two acres of land that he and his wife owned on the edge of the "forest" (katu) near the village of Somatur in the South Arcot district of Tamilnadu. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
countersorcery ritual, karakam pot, camphor lump, chartering myth, lineage deity, ritual musicians, ceremonial pot, thread ladder, vermillion powder, camphor flame, lineage god, lineage deities, marriage invitation, turmeric paste, funeral grounds, domestic sanctuary, burning camphor, family deity, village deity, household deity, household deities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Arcot, South Indian, Mel Malaiyanúr, Sri Lanka, David Shulman, Bruce Kapferer, Eveline Meyer, Gananath Obeyesekere, Lionel Caplan, Christopher Fuller, Lord Siva, Luc de Heusch, Margaret Trawick, Andhra Pradesh, Edward Schieffelin, North Arcot, Victor Turner New!
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Suresh was a member of the Tenpalli caste who cultivated two acres of land that he and his wife owned on the edge of the "forest" (katu) near the village of Somatur in the South Arcot district of Tamilnadu. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
countersorcery ritual, karakam pot, camphor lump, chartering myth, lineage deity, ritual musicians, ceremonial pot, thread ladder, vermillion powder, camphor flame, lineage god, lineage deities, marriage invitation, turmeric paste, funeral grounds, domestic sanctuary, burning camphor, family deity, village deity, household deity, household deities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Arcot, South Indian, Mel Malaiyanúr, Sri Lanka, David Shulman, Bruce Kapferer, Eveline Meyer, Gananath Obeyesekere, Lionel Caplan, Christopher Fuller, Lord Siva, Luc de Heusch, Margaret Trawick, Andhra Pradesh, Edward Schieffelin, North Arcot, Victor Turner New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sri Lanka (Visitor's Guides) by Tony Astle in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India by Stuart H. Blackburn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Religious Festivals in South India and Sri Lanka by Guy Welbon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Castes and Tribes of Southern India by Edgar Thurston in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Asian Medical Systems by Charles Leslie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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