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Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment - Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas (Hardcover)
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Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment - Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas (Hardcover)
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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Central
Himalayan region of Kumaon, Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine
Embodiment from the Central Himalayas explores ideas of justice by
drawing on oral and written narratives, stories, testimonies, and
rituals told and performed in relation to the 'God of Justice',
Goludev, and other regional deities. The book seeks to answer
several questions: How is the concept of justice defined in South
Asia? Why do devotees seek out Goludev for the resolution of
matters of justice instead of using the secular courts? What are
the sociological and political consequences of situating divine
justice within a secular, democratic, modern context? Moreover, how
do human beings locate themselves within the indeterminateness and
struggles of their everyday existence? What is the place of
language and ritual in creating intimacy and self? How is justice
linked to intimacy, truth, and being human? The stories and
narratives in this book revolve around Goludev's own story and
deeds, as well as hundreds of petitions (manauti) written on paper
that devotees hang on his temple walls, and rituals (jagar) that
involve spirit possession and the embodiment of the deity through
designated mediums. The jagars are powerful, extraordinary
experiences, mesmerizing because of their intensity but also
because of what they imply in terms of how we conceptualize being
being human with the seemingly limitless potential to shift, alter,
and transform ourselves through language and ritual practice. The
petitions, though silent and absent of the singing, drumming, and
choreography that accompany jagars, are equally powerful because of
their candid and intimate testimony to the aspirations, breakdowns,
struggles, and breakthroughs that circumscribe human existence.
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