The poetics of "Sufi" practice: Drumming, dancing, and complex agency at Madho Lāl Husain (and beyond)

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 246-268

  Wolf, Richard K ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Identity; Music; Poetics; Ritual; South Asia; Sufism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746813013     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.2.246     Document Type: Article

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