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Play, Symbolism, and Ritual

Play, Symbolism, and Ritual

A Study of Tamil Brahmin Women's Rites of Passage

by Vasumathi K Duvvury
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/06/1991

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This study comprises an in-depth analysis of the world of south Indian rural and urban Tamil Brahmin Aiyar women - a world made up of oral, 'non-serious' rituals, where the various categories of women occupy very definite and often contrasting positions.Women's rituals, since they are primarily non-scriptural, have hitherto received scant attention from scholars who have mainly been interested in the scriptural or Vedic tradition of India. Dealt with in two parts with illustrative case studies and photographs, this is probably the most comprehensive and systematic study available to date on Aiyar women and their rituals.
ISBN:
9780820411088
9780820411088
Category:
Literary studies: general
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-06-1991
Publisher:
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
251
Weight:
0.52kg

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