Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

by Isabelle Nabokov

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195113648
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/21/2000
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	9.38(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Princeton University

Editorial Reviews

"...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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