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....
Subtitles: | Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Equinox
[2020]
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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
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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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