Religion Against the Self : An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals: An Ethnography of Tamil RitualsOxford University Press, USA, 28 août 2000 - 256 pages In this comprehensive analysis of South Indian village Hinduism, Isabelle Nabokov shows that a wide spectrum of Tamil rituals effects transformations of identity through similar processual and symbolic operations. She reveals that such operations may lead participants to adopt personalities which are at odds with themselves. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 3 |
ONE Painful Crossings | 19 |
TWO Fruit from the Goddess | 31 |
THREE In the Grip of Blindness | 44 |
EIGHT Fruit from the Dead | 114 |
ELEVEN From Feast to SelfSacrifice | 151 |
TWELVE Beyond Process and Separation | 164 |
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