TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ishii,Miho
TI  - Modernity and spirit worship in India: An Anthropology of the Umwelt 
T2  - Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies
SN  - 9781000740653
U1  - 200.954 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Milton
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Worship
KW  - Spirits
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - India
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion
N1  - Description based upon print version of record
N2  - This book investigates the entangled relations between people's daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (bta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizscker. First, it examines the relations between bta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in bta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780367822668/modernity-spirit-worship-india-miho-ishii
ER  -