Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India PDF
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Peter Berger Feeding, Sharing, and Devouring Religion and Society Edited by Gustavo Benavides, Kocku von Stuckrad and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Volume 59 Peter Berger Feeding, Sharing, and Devouring Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India Translated by Jennifer R. Ottman DE GRUYTER ThetranslationofthisworkwasfundedbyGeisteswissenschaftenInternational– TranslationFundingforWorkintheHumanitiesandSocialSciencesfromGermany,ajoint initiativeoftheFritzThyssenFoundation,theGermanFederalForeignOffice,thecollecting societyVGWORTandtheBörsenvereindesDeutschenBuchhandels(GermanPublishers& BooksellersAssociation). ThisworkwastranslatedfromtheoriginalGermanintoEnglishbyJenniferR.Ottman. ISBN978-1-61451-379-7 e-ISBN(PDF)978-1-61451-363-6 e-ISBN(EPUB)978-1-61451-975-1 ISSN1437-5370 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableontheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ©2015WalterdeGruyterInc.,Boston/Berlin/Munich Printingandbinding:CPIbooksGmbH,Leck ♾Printedonacid-freepaper PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com for Amrei and in memory of Rogu Sisa and Jomna Contents Note on Usage XI Preface XIII Introduction 1 . The Research Region 2 . Ethnography of the Gadaba 10 . My Fieldwork among the Gadaba 12 . Food and Society 16 . Some Theoretical Remarks 38 . Organization and Theses 51 Part One: The Social Order The Social Order: Categories, Groups, Relationships 57 . The House 58 . The Local Sub-Line 78 . Local Lines, Status Categories, and Dignitaries 81 . The Village 94 . The “Latecomers” 123 . The Land 135 . Relationships between Villages 166 . Concepts of “Society” 190 . External Relationships 198 . Conclusion 203 Part Two: Rituals and Festivals Fed and Eaten: Transformations of the Person 221 . Pregnancy and Rebirth 221 . Birth 222 . Sacrifice for the Dead 227 . Tying the Chicken Bone 228 VIII Contents . “Ending Pollution” 228 . Tying the “Birth String” 234 . “Taking Down the Hair” 235 . The “Path Wedding” 237 . The Process of Marriage 245 . On the Living, the Dead, and Dying 274 . The Mortuary Rituals I 283 . The Mortuary Rituals II: gotr 304 . Conclusion 332 The Table of the Agnates: Rituals of the Annual Cycle 364 . Seasons and Festivals 364 . Forms of Labor Help 366 . The Hot Season 368 . The Rainy Season 400 . The Cold Season 415 . Conclusion 444 “You Are the Goat, I Am the Tiger”: The Rituals of Healing 475 . The Social Meaning of Illness: Precarious Relationships 475 . Causes of Illness and Misfortune 477 . Specialists, Diagnoses, and Treatments 480 . The Healers’ Means 483 . Curses 486 . Destruction 488 . Possession and Exorcism 503 . Attacks by soni rau 510 . Conclusion 512 Conclusion 520 TransformationandConstitutionofSocialRelationshipsthroughAlimentary Processes 522 Symbolic Classification in Alimentary Processes 523 Appendix Epilogue 531 Bibliography 554 Contents IX Glossary 568 Desia 568 Gutob 584 List of Figures 590 List of Photos 591 List of Maps 592 List of Tables 593 Index 594
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