Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Feeding, sharing and devouring : ritual and society in Highland Odisha, India / Peter Berger ; translated by Jennifer R. Ottman

Author
Berger, Peter, 1969-
Uniform Title
Fèuttern, Speisen und Verschlingen. English
Published
Boston : de Gruyter, [2015]
Physical Description
xx, 617 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Series
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.The Research Region -- 1.2.Ethnography of the Gadaba -- 1.3.My Fieldwork among the Gadaba -- 1.4.Food and Society -- 1.5.Some Theoretical Remarks -- 1.6.Organization and Theses -- pt. One The Social Order -- 2.The Social Order: Categories, Groups, Relationships -- 2.1.The House -- 2.2.The Local Sub-Line -- 2.3.Local Lines, Status Categories, and Dignitaries -- 2.4.The Village -- 2.5.The "Latecomers" -- 2.6.The Land -- 2.7.Relationships between Villages -- 2.8.Concepts of "Society" -- 2.9.External Relationships -- 2.10.Conclusion -- pt. Two Rituals and Festivals -- 3.Fed and Eaten: Transformations of the Person -- 3.1.Pregnancy and Rebirth -- 3.2.Birth -- 3.3.Sacrifice for the Dead -- 3.4.Tying the Chicken Bone -- 3.5."Ending Pollution" -- 3.6.Tying the "Birth String" -- 3.7."Taking Down the Hair" -- 3.8.The "Path Wedding" -- 3.9.The Process of Marriage -- 3.10.On the Living, the Dead, and Dying -- 3.11.The Mortuary Rituals I -- 3.12.The Mortuary Rituals II: gotr -- 3.13.Conclusion -- 4.The Table of the Agnates: Rituals of the Annual Cycle -- 4.1.Seasons and Festivals -- 4.2.Forms of Labor Help -- 4.3.The Hot Season -- 4.4.The Rainy Season -- 4.5.The Cold Season -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 5."You Are the Goat, I Am the Tiger": The Rituals of Healing -- 5.1.The Social Meaning of Illness: Precarious Relationships -- 5.2.Causes of Illness and Misfortune -- 5.3.Specialists, Diagnoses, and Treatments -- 5.4.The Healers' Means -- 5.5.Curses -- 5.6.Destruction -- 5.7.Possession and Exorcism -- 5.8.Attacks by soni rau -- 5.9.Conclusion -- 6.Conclusion -- Transformation and Constitution of Social Relationships through Alimentary Processes -- Symbolic Classification in Alimentary Processes.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9781614513797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1614513791 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 554-567) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 15200756