Ways of Dying : Death and Its Meaning in South Asia

by Schombucher, Elisabeth; Zoller, Claus Peter

• ISBN13: 9788173042430
• ISBN10: 8173042438
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: South Asia Books

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	7	(9)
Acknowledgements	9	(2)
Note on Transliteration and Transcription	11	(4)
Introduction
Death and its Meanings in South Asia	15	(21)
Claus Peter Zoller
Elisabeth Schombucher
Death as Experience and Institution in Anthropological Theory	36	(13)
Klaus-Peter Kopping
PART I: THE CREATION OF ANCESTORS
The Making of Good Ancestors: Separation, Transformation and Exchange in Mewahang Rai Funerary Rites	49	(19)
Martin Gaenszle
How to Make the Spirit of the Dead Happy: The Rhetoric of Words and Deeds in a Jenu Kurumba Death Ritual	68	(20)
Ulrich Demmer
Mourning, Mortuary Exchange and Memorialization: The Creation of Local Communities among Dalits in Gujarat	88	(24)
Shalini Randeria
Ancestors, Demons and the Ritual Impossibility of Death in Brahmanical Hinduism: Bala's Fourteenth in Deopatan (Nepal)	112	(23)
Axel Michaels
Le sacrifice des os	135	(18)
Charles Malamoud
PART II: THE EXTRAORDINARY DEATH
Rivers and the Death of Children	153	(9)
Anne Feldhaus
Death as the Beginning of a New Life: Hero-Worship among a South Indian Fishing Caste	162	(17)
Elisabeth Schombucher
No Heroes in Kalinga? On Death in Kalinga Inscriptions	179	(11)
Georg Berkemer
A Note on Death and the Holy Man in South Asia	190	(15)
Hugh van Skyhawk
PART III: THE NARRATION AND PERFORMANCE OF DEATH
An Indian Myth of the Creation of Death and Life	205	(28)
Claus Peter Zoller
Stringing a Necklace of Heads: Sacrifice and Death in the Cult of Devnarayan	233	(16)
Aditya Malik
Narrated and Dramatized Death in Tulu Culture	249	(26)
Heidrun Bruckner
Kuttantavar: The Divine Lives of a Severed Head	275	(52)
Alf Hiltebeitel
Contributors	327