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This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a 'total' or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.
This study, based on the author's fieldwork among rural Tamil
villagers in South India, focuses on the ways in which people in
this society interact with the supernatural beings who play such a
large role in their personal and corporate lives. Isabelle Navokov
looks at a spectrum of ritualized contexts in which the boundaries
between the natural and spiritual worls are penetrated and
communication takes place. Throughout, Nabokov's meticulous
analysis sheds new light on this hiterto almost unkown domain - and
entire range of fascinating phenomena basic to South Indian
religion as it is really lived.
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