Dangerous marginality: rethinking impurity and power
Vijaisri, Priyadarshini
Edition: Delhi
₹ 1195.00
Title in ENGLISH : The book focuses on village festivals invoking the Matangi, an outcaste clan goddess in Andhra Pradesh. It explores the ambiguous category of outcaste priest and priestess whose intriguing presence appears in fleeting images in colonial archives and missological accounts. These striking personae challenge the assumptions predominant in the discourses of caste.
ISBN 13: 9789384082222
ISBN 10: 9384082228
Edition: Delhi
Year: 2014
Language: ENGLISH
Subject(s): Sociology
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