Bringing the Dead Home: Hindu Invitation Rituals in Tamil South India
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Tamil-speaking South India, this article presents one Hindu invitation ritual to return dead relatives known as pūvāṭaikkāri to the world of the living and install them as household deities. This two-day ceremony demonstrates that prevailing...
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Oxford University Press
[2021]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-142 |
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