My Grandmother's Bones

This article examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother's life and death, respectively....

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India
Main Author: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2020]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 98-112
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Telangana (Region) / Hinduism / Funeral rite / Woman religious studies scholar / Field-research
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Brahmin
B madi (purity)
B maila (impurity)
B Experience account
B Caste
B Hindu death rituals
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