Ways of dying : death and its meanings in South Asia /
Contributed seminar papers
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Manohar Publishers & Distributors,
1999
New Delhi : 1999 |
| Series: | South Asian studies
no. 33 South Asian studies ; no. 33 South Asian studies no. 33 |
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Table of Contents:
- Death and its meanings in South Asia / Claus Peter Zoller and Elisabeth Schömbucher
- Death as experience and institution in anthropological theory / Klaus-Peter Köpping
- The making of good ancestors : separation, transformation and exchange in Mewahang Rai funerary rites / Martin Gaenszle
- How to make the spirit of the dead happy : the rhetoric of words and deeds ina Jēnu Kuṟumba death ritual / Ulrich Demmer
- Mounring, mortuary exchange and memorialization : the creation of local communities among Dalits in Gujarat / Shalini Randeria
- Ancestors, demons and the ritual impossibility of death in Brahmanical Hinduism : Bālā's Fourteenth in Deopatan (Nepal) / Axel Michaels
- Le sacrifice des os / Charles Malamoud
- Rivers and the death of children / Anne Feldhaus
- Death as the beginning of a new life : hero-worship among a south Indian fishing caste / Elisabeth Schömbucher
- No heroes in Kaliṅga? : on death in Kaliṅga inscriptions / Georg Berkemer
- A note on death and the holy many in south asia / Hugh van Skyhawk
- An Indian myth of the creation of death and life / Claus Peter Zoller
- Stringing a necklace of heads : sacrifice and death in the cult of Devnārāyaṇ / Aditya Malik
- Narrated and dramatized death in Tuḷu culture / Heidrun Brūckner
- Kūttāṇṭavar : the divine lives of a severed head / Alf Hiltebeitel