Problematizing received categories: Revisiting 'folk Hinduism' and 'Sanskritization'

Current Sociology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Sinha, Vineeta ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Ethnography; Folk Hinduism; Sanskritization

Indexed keywords

EID: 31944436422     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392106058836     Document Type: Article

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