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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Feeding, Sharing, and Devouring
:
Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India
Contains:
FrontmatterContentsNote on UsagePreface1. Introduction2. The Social Order: Categories, Groups, Relationships3. Fed and Eaten: Transformations of the Person4. The Table of the Agnates: Rituals of the Annual Cycle5. "You Are the Goat, I Am the Tiger": The Rituals of Healing6. ConclusionAppendix.
Reproduction note:
Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web Also available in print edition
Origination:
Footnote:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether. Food epitomizes the social for the Gadaba of Orissa. In investigating the complex paths of ritual practices this study aims to understand the interrelated fields of cosmology, social order and economy of an Indian highland community