Open AccessKashi Labh
Author(s) -
Rajat Nayyar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of anthropological films
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2535-437X
DOI - 10.15845/jaf.v5i02.3272
Subject(s) - performative utterance , ethnography , space (punctuation) , aesthetics , sociology , anthropology , art , philosophy , linguistics
Kashi Labh is a sensory audiovisual ethnography of the distinctive politics-of-care staged by families while they anticipate and create the possibility of Moksha for their dying relative in Kashi (Varanasi). This research examines audiovisual ethnography as it facilitates a performative space that allowed me and my interlocutor Shiv to navigate the holy city and improvise different possibilities for his mother’s Moksha during his ten-day stay in Kashi.