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Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala

by Matthew Martin

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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In previous studies of South Asian Tantric ritual, scholars tend to focus on one region or context. For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala: Embodying the Goddess-clan offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala. In this book, Matthew Martin advances a new theory of ritual, which spotlights the way dancer-mediums embody medieval goddess-clans and ancestor deities, through offerings of food and sacrifice, that synchronize their denizens with the land in spiralling web-like ritual networks. Uniquely interdisciplinary in style, this study synthesizes cultural history, ethnography, and theory to explore the continuities – historical, societal, and political – that characterize these ritual traditions across the subcontinent.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Asian esoteric and internal traditions and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “mediumship”. Retained metadata contains “Mediums” in the description and “mediumship” in the description.

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  • Asian esoteric and internal traditions

    Retained metadata contains “tantra” in the title, “tantra” in the description, “tantra” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “tantra”· in description
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2020-08-10—English—Unknown

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