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

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 andwriting on this exacting ritual practice.

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• Authors: Vijaya Nagarajan, Nagarajan Vijaya
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2019
• EAN: 9780190858070
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085807-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Sociology: customs & traditions, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, India, Applied ecology, Hinduism, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity