Religion Against the Self —— An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

----- 宗教反对自我：泰米尔仪式的民族志

ISBN: 9780195113648 出版年：2000 页码：245 Nabokov, Isabelle Oxford University Press

This study, based on the author's fieldwork among rural Tamil villagers in South India, focuses on the ways in which people in this society interact with the supernatural beings who play such a large role in their personal and corpoate lives. Isabelle Navokov looks at a spectrum of ritualized contexts in which the boundaries between the natural and spiritual worls are penetrated and communication takes place. Throughout, Nabokov's meticulous analysis sheds new light on this hiterto almost unknown domain - and entire range of fascinating phenomena basic to South Indian religion as it is really lived.