ISBN:
9780195113648
,
0195113640
,
9780195113655
,
0195113659
,
1280453893
,
9781280453892
,
1423740998
,
9781423740995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 230 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Weiss, Richard Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Nabokov 2002
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion against the self
DDC:
306.6095482
Keywords:
Hinduism Customs and practices
;
India
;
Tamil Nadu
;
Tamil (Indic people) Customs and practices
;
Spirit possession India
;
Tamil Nadu
;
Hinduism Customs and practices
;
Tamil (Indic people) Customs and practices
;
Spirit possession
;
Spirit possession
;
Hinduism Customs and practices
;
Tamil (Indic people) Customs and practices
;
Hinduism ; Customs and practices
;
Spirit possession
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Religious life and customs
;
India ; Tamil Nadu
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This study, based on the author's fieldwork among rural Tamil villagers in South India, focuses on the ways in which people in this society interact with the supernatural beings who play such a large role in their personal and corporate lives. Isabelle Navokov looks at a spectrum of ritualized contexts in which the boundaries between the natural and spiritual worlds are penetrated and communication takes place. Throughout, Nabokov's meticulous analysis sheds new light on this hiterto almost unknown domain - and entire range of fascinating phenomena basic to South Indian religion as it is really lived
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index. - Description based on print version record
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