Farewell ritual and transmigrating souls: Secondary funeral of the attappādi kurumbas

Anthropologist

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-38

  Poyil, Manjula ^a  

^a KANNUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Communion of the soul; Death ceremony; Funeral car; Ossuary

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549096284     PISSN: 09720073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09720073.2009.11891076     Document Type: Article

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