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Deadly power: a funeral to counter sorcery in South India

Author(s) -

Nabokov IsabelIe

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

american ethnologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875

H-Index - 78

eISSN - 1548-1425

pISSN - 0094-0496

DOI - 10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.147

Subject(s) - tamil , proposition , power (physics) , sociology , regeneration (biology) , history , aesthetics , anthropology , environmental ethics , art , philosophy , literature , epistemology , biology , physics , quantum mechanics , microbiology and biotechnology

In this article, I argue that the regenerative potential of Tamil sorcery and countersorcery in South India inevitably depends on destruction; I demonstrate what ritual specialists' and sufferers' perspectives can reveal about relations of power, death, and regeneration. I take issue with Bruce Kapferer's recent proposition that sorcery is a creative practice through which human beings make and remake their lives, [sorcery, countersorcery, ritual healing, funeral symbolism, South India, Tamil people]

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