Author: Nabokov, Isabelle
Title: Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. orig.boards. 24x15cm, xi,230 pp.. Minor rubbing. A 2cm crack to front exterior hinge. VG. ¶ This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a 'total' or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Anthropology of Religion, Tamil Nadu, Hindu Hinduism, Tamils Hindus, Spirit Possession, Ethnology, Ethnography, India South Asia, Ritual Rituals