Book Summary
In this comprehensive analysis of South Indian village Hinduism, Isabelle Nabokov shows that a wide spectrum of Tamil rituals effects transformations of identity through similar processual and symbolic operations. She reveals that such operations may lead participants to adopt personalities which are at odds with themselves.
Book Details
| Book Name | Religion Against The Self: An Ethnography Of Tamil Rituals |
| Author | Isabelle Nabokov, Isabelle Clark-deces |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, Usa (Sep 2000) |
| ISBN | 9780195113648 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 2604 |
