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Tantra, ritual performance, and politics in Nepal and Kerala : embodying the goddess-clan / Matthew Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Matthew, 1991- author.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 166.
- Studies in the History of Religions ; Volume 166
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shaktism--Rituals.
- Shaktism.
- Durgā (Hindu deity)--Cult--Nepal--Bhaktapur.
- Durgā.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Revision of author's PhD dissertation.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004439023
- 90-04-43902-1
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004439023 DOI
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