Ritualizing on the Boundaries: Continuity and Innovation in the Tamil Diaspora

by Fred W. Clothey

A comparative study of the roles of ritual in four South Indian immigrant communities

For centuries and particularly since the 1830s, Tamils and other South Indians have become part of a diaspora that has scattered their identities and traditions, both real and invented, to cities around the world. In his comparative study of four Tamil resettlements, senior scholar Fred W. Clothey examines the rituals that have traveled with these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036470
• ISBN13: 9781570036477
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"