Feeding a Thousand Souls —— Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam

----- 喂养一千个灵魂：印度的女人、仪式和生态——对古拉姆河的探索

ISBN: 9780195170825 出版年：2018 页码：337 Nagarajan, Vijaya Oxford University Press

Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a new kolam, an ephemeral but highly elaborate ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses, and temples. This thousand-year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. The first comprehensive study of the kolam in English, Feeding a Thousand Souls is the culmination of Vijaya Nagarajan's many years of research and writing on this exacting ritual practice.