Deadly power: A funeral to counter sorcery in South India

American Ethnologist

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 147-168

  Nabokov, Isabelle ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Countersorcery; Funeral symbolism; Ritual healing; Sorcery; South India; Tamil people

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034342838     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.147     Document Type: Article

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