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Modernity and Spirit Worship in India - An Anthropology of the Umwelt (Paperback)
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Modernity and Spirit Worship in India - An Anthropology of the Umwelt (Paperback)
Series: Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies
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This book investigates the entangled relations between people's
daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing
on the practices of spirit (buta) worship in the coastal area of
Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities.
Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important
anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions,
and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor
von Weizsacker. First, it examines the relations between buta
worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society.
It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and
current practices based on conventional law, before examining new
developments in buta worship with the rise of mega-industries and
environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the
struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate
their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the
formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual
social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India
will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology,
religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian
Culture and Society.
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