My Grandmother's Bones
This article examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother's life and death, respectively....
| Published in: | Fieldwork in religion |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox
[2020]
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| In: |
Fieldwork in religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Telangana (Region)
/ Hinduism
/ Funeral rite
/ Woman religious studies scholar
/ Field-research
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Brahmin
B madi (purity) B maila (impurity) B Experience account B Caste B Hindu death rituals |
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| Summary: | This article examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother's life and death, respectively. I also consider the materiality of my grandmother's bones in the funerary rites, including the final cremation and post-cremation rituals conducted by my father and uncles in Hyderabad, Telangana in August 2013. The article concludes by reflecting on the resilience of my grandmother, a brahmin widow for more than thirty years of her life. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-0623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/firn.18354 |