Religion Against the Self : An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

Religion Against the Self : An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

by Isabelle Nabokov Assistant Professor of Anthropology Princeton University

256 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780198027355
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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.

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