Author: Fischer, Eberhard & Haku Shah.
Title: Art for tribal rituals in South Gujarat, India. A visual anthropological survey of 1969.
Description: [Zürich], Artibus Asiae Publishers & [New Dehli], Niyogi Books, [2021]. 527 pp. [823] photos (chiefly in b./w.). Orig. hardcover (boards), d./j. 4to. In orig. slipcase. - First endpaper very sl. dam. along the top edge; slipcase with light shelfwear. (Artibus Asiae / Supplement, 53). [ISBN: 9789389136807].Art for Tribal Rituals is the outcome of extensive fieldwork carried out by Eberhard Fischer and Haku Shah in South Gujarat in 1969. After an initial survey tour to locate village shrines and sacred pilgrimage sites, as well as specialists in rituals and crafts, the two art-anthropologists stayed in the field to observe as silent participants oracle and spirit-healing sessions, a death ceremony and the worship of local deities by the village communities. Fischer and Shah documented their experiences in unprecedentedly detailed photographic sequences, and as well, took precise notation of what they observed. - Text in English.

Keywords: Asian art India Gujarat Ethnography India Etnografie / Azië(India)[Gujarat] Aziatische kunst Etnografie Etnografie / Azië(India)[Gujarat]