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Children of the Earth Goddess - Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Odisha (Hardcover)
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Children of the Earth Goddess - Society, Marriage and Sacrifice in the Highlands of Odisha (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Society
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The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something
radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to
the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a
community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain
range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of
life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as
the real "Avatars" because they successfully fought a multinational
company's plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the
Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole
environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex
cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine
law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond
and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It
offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside
world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals
in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the
reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human
concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.
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