Tantra, ritual performance, and politics in Nepal and Kerala: embodying the goddess-clan
Introduction: Methodology and context -- Introducing the southern case study : Teyyāṭṭam, Northern Malabar, Kerala -- Introducing the northern case study : Navadurgā, Bhaktapur, Nepal -- Dancer-medium communities and ritual kinship -- History and assimilation in Tantric cosmology -- Sacrifice, earth...