Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 296 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004439023
Series Statement:
Numen book series volume 166
Content:
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Style, Format, and Interview Transcriptions -- Introduction: Methodology and Context -- Case Studies -- Introducing the Southern Case Study-Teyyāṭṭam, Northern Malabar, Kerala -- Introducing the Northern Case Study-Navadurgā, Bhaktapur, Nepal -- Themes -- Dancer-Medium Communities and Ritual Kinship -- History and Assimilation in Tantric Cosmology -- Sacrifice, Earth Cycles, and Self-Reflexive Affect -- Politics, Ritual Performance, and Caste -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
In previous studies of South Asian Tantric ritual, scholars tend to focus on one region or context. For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala: Embodying the Goddess-clan offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala. In this book, Matthew Martin advances a new theory of ritual, which spotlights the way dancer-mediums embody medieval goddess-clans and ancestor deities, through offerings of food and sacrifice, that synchronize their denizens with the land in spiralling web-like ritual networks. Uniquely interdisciplinary in style, this study synthesizes cultural history, ethnography, and theory to explore the continuities - historical, societal, and political - that characterize these ritual traditions across the subcontinent
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004438996
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Martin, Matthew, 1991 - Tantra, ritual performance, and politics in Nepal and Kerala Leiden : Brill, 2020 ISBN 9789004438996
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Nepal
;
Schaktismus
;
Kerala
;
Teyyam
;
Göttin
;
Kult
;
Bhaktapur
;
Malabarküste
;
Navaratri
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004439023
URL:
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