Pierced by Murugan’s Lance

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ISBN-10: 0875805744
ISBN-13: 9780875805740
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publish Date: 10/01/1997
Dimensions: 9.08" L, 6.06" W, 0.77" H

Pierced by Murugan’s Lance

byElizabeth Fuller Collins

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Overview

An analysis of the Thaipusam festival of the Hindu Tamils of Malaysia and the vows they make to the god Murugan. It explores the meaning of vow fulfilment as reflected in social, economic and political divisions in the Tamil community, and the practice of ritual as a form of symbolic action.

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A remarkable first book.

-Journal of Ritual Studies

This splendid book succeeds in making an esoteric and forbidding subject into an engaging study that will interest a wide readership.–Choice

Masterfully crafted.... A deft analysis of an arresting ritual event.–Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Details

ISBN-10: 0875805744
ISBN-13: 9780875805740
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publish Date: 10/01/1997
Dimensions: 9.08" L, 6.06" W, 0.77" H
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