Ritualizing on the Boundaries
Subtitle: Continuity And Innovation in the Tamil Diaspora (Studies in Comparative Religion)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: November 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781570036477
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Religious rites & ceremonies; Malaysia; Customs & Traditions; Religion; Archaeology / Anthropology; India; Pennsylvania; Rites and ceremonies; Anthropology - Cultural; Emigration & Immigration; Bombay; Comparative Religion; Singapore; Tamil (Indic people)
First sentence: Circumstances over the last half century have created a planet of people who live on boundaries.
Description: "For centuries and particularly since the 1830s, Tamils and other South Indians have become part of a diaspora that has scattered their identities and traditions, both real and invented, to cities around the world. In his comparative study of four Tamil resettlements, senior scholar Fred W. Clothey examines the rituals that have traveled with these South Indian communities - Hindu, Muslim, and Christian - and how these practices perpetuate or modify the heritages these groups claim for themselves in their new environs."--BOOK JACKET.