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Death and afterlife in a Tamil village : discourses of low caste women / Nathalie Peyer.
Van Pelt Library DS485.M29 P49 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peyer, Nathalie.
- Series:
- Performanzen ; Bd. 6.
- Performanzen : interkulturelle Studien zu Ritual, Spiel und Theater ; Bd. 6 = Performances : intercultural studies on ritual, play and theatre ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women.
- Manners and customs.
- Dalits.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Madurai (India : District)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Madurai (India : District).
- Madurai (India : District)--Religious life and customs.
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies--India--Madurai (District).
- Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies.
- India--Madurai (District).
- Death--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Death.
- Tamil (Indic people)--India--Madurai (District)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Dalits--India--Madurai (District)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Women--India--Madurai (District)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Caste--India--Madurai (District).
- Caste.
- Future life--Hinduism.
- Future life.
- Tamil Nadu (India)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Tamil Nadu (India).
- Physical Description:
- 101, xiii pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Münster : Lit, [2004]
- Summary:
- Studies of death rituals and of beliefs about the afterlife in India have mainly been carried out from the perspective of male members of high castes following the Sanskritic tradition. In contrast, this study focuses on rural low caste women's discourses about death and afterlife. Their talk about death and afterlife is analyzed in a wider social context. The study reveals that death is symbolically related to and meaningful for the social order, the recreation of life, and the status of women. Women believe it is important to control death as it is considered a vulnerable state of transition that is constantly endangered by impurity and by attacks of malign ghosts.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (M.A.)--Universität Bern, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101).
- ISBN:
- 3825869911
- OCLC:
- 55653196
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