{"product_id":"tantra-ritual-performance-and-politics-in-nepal-and-kerala-embodying-the-goddess-clan-9789004438996","title":"Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala: Embodying the Goddess-clan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures  Abbreviations  Style, Format, and Interview Transcriptions    Introduction: Methodology and Context   1 Folk Śākta Performances: Sovereignty, Goddesses, and Macro-Clans   2 Teyyāṭṭam and Navadurgā Compared: The Research Process   3 Methodological Orientations   4 Fieldwork Locations \u0026amp; Informant Introductions   5 Contextual Background    Part 1     1 Introducing the Southern Case Study—Teyyāṭṭam, Northern Malabar, Kerala   1 Ancestors, Land, and Divinities (Teyyam) in Northern Kerala   2 Lineages, Clans, and Ritual Kinship   3 Blood Sacrifices, Offerings, and Swords   4 Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Textual History   5 Caste Identities, Politics, and Performance in North Malabar    2 Introducing the Northern Case Study—Navadurgā, Bhaktapur, Nepal   1 Hindu-Buddhist Tantra in Newar Society: The Case of Bhaktapur   2 Bhaktapur City: Blood Symbols, Goddess-Clan, Space, and Society   3 Monsoon, Power, and the Goddess-Clan: Banmala Dancer-Mediums during the Ritual Cycle   4 Blood Sacrifice, Mohani, and the Navadurgā Cycle   5 Cosmology, Tantric Texts, and Newar Hinduism in Bhaktapur   6 Politics and Caste Structures in Bhaktapur    Part 2     3 Dancer-Medium Communities and Ritual Kinship   1 Introduction   2 Dancer-Medium Communities: Teyyāṭṭam and Navadurgā   3 Teyyāṭṭam   4 Navadurgā   5 Conclusion    4 History and Assimilation in Tantric Cosmology   1 Introduction   2 Teyyāṭṭam   3 Navadurgā   4 Conclusion    5 Sacrifice, Earth Cycles, and Self-Reflexive Affect   1 Introduction   2 Teyyāṭṭam   3 Navadurgā   4 Conclusion    6 Politics, Ritual Performance, and Caste   1 Introduction   2 Marxist-Influenced Politics and Ritual Performance in Postcolonial South Asia   3 Teyyāṭṭam   4 Navadurgā   5 Conclusion    Conclusion   1 Teyyāṭṭam and Navadurgā Compared: Revisited   2 Dancer-Medium Communities and Ritual Kinship   3 History and Metaphysical Underlays of Folk Śākta Ritual   4 Blood Sacrifice and Self-Reflexive Affect   5 Politics and Caste Structure    Glossary of Key Terms  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210807828823,"sku":"9789004438996","price":129.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tantra-ritual-performance-and-politics-in-nepal-and-kerala-embodying-the-goddess-clan-9789004438996","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}