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Tag Archives: India
Co-opting Categories: It’s the Cats’ Meow
By Deeksha Sivakumar Pulivesham (“Tiger Disguise”), a well-known dancing ritual in Southern India, resurfaced in the news forcing me to question what we name ‘religious ritual’ and what we tend to call ‘folk’ or ‘popular’ practices. What is even more … Continue reading
Scholarship From The Road: “Being Someone”
by Deeksha Sivakumar Who would have thought that one of the hardest questions I ask myself every morning during fieldwork is “what to wear?” In order to be remembered or valued in society we all lay somewhere on a spectrum … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, South Asian Studies
Tagged American, cultural capital, ethnography, identity, India, Kirin Narayan
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Scholarship From The Road: Belief, Practice and the Story of Andal
By Deeksha Sivakumar “The women of Ayodhya run eagerly to see the procession to Sita’s house… their hair fell loose, open on all sides, their waist girdles come undone, they do not even stop to cover their breasts… as they … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, South Asian Studies
Tagged Allah, Andal, Belief, Brahman, India, practice, Protestantism, Rama, ritual, Siva, Vishnu
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What Ales the Hindu Community… Kali-Ma Beer?
By Deeksha Sivakumar As early as next week, Burnside Brewery in Portland Oregon planned to release a spiced wheat beer, “Kali-Ma”. Needless to say, the ‘cultural theft’ of a popular demonic form of a Hindu goddess has rubbed a number … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged Burnside Brewery, cultural theft, Egypt, Halloween, Heidi Blum, Hinduism, India, Kal-Ma
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The Burden of Performance
By Deeksha Sivakumar How do I connect with the ancient world by performing in a modern world a play written many centuries ago? This past Friday, I performed the ancient playwright Bhāsa’s Karnabhāram, or ”Karna’s Burden.” Written well before the 5th Century, … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, Southeast Asian Studies
Tagged Bhasa, Hinduism, India, Karna, Mahabharata
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What’s in a Name?
By Steven Ramey Discussing the enforcement of shariah in Aceh, Indonesia, a student (at my home institution, the University of Alabama) asked how police would know if the rule-breaker was Muslim, since some claimed the law only applied to Muslims. … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, South Asian Studies, Steven Ramey
Tagged Arya Samaj, India, Indoneia, Islam, Muslim, University of Alabama
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Indian Child-Tossing Ritual and Selective Social Outrage
By Deeksha Sivakumar Which children should we save? On the one hand, the Bagalkot baby-tossing ritual has no recorded deaths and yet receives abhorrence. Audience members tweeted and emailed NDTV that they were appalled at the State’s lack of regulation … Continue reading
Posted in Deeksha Sivakumar, Religion and Society
Tagged Bagalkot, British colonialism, Child-tossing ritual, Hinduism, India, infant deaths, NDTV, Ratha Yatra, Suttee
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