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Migration and the commoditisation of ritual : Sacrifice, spectacle and contestations in Kerala, India
This article discusses relationships between ritual change and out-migration in rural Kerala, south India, via ethnography o kuthiyfottam, a sacrifice of human blood standing metonymically for full human sacrifice. Migration-in particular to the Gulf-has accelerated ongoing processes of commoditisat...
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Contributions to Indian Sociology 2003; 37; 109
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/00733.pdf |