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The Cow in the Elevator - An Anthropology of Wonder (Paperback)
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The Cow in the Elevator - An Anthropology of Wonder (Paperback)
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In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful
world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to
present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern
religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with
priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living
in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where
ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder-a feeling of
amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering
a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made
normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in
globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of
wonder-apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples-into
the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical
themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and
the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and
the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the
Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our
appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship
and for life.
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