Mahishi´s rage. Communitas and protest at Sabarimala, Kerala.
Dinesan Vadakkiniyil
- Singapore-SI : Anthropology Today , 2019.
- páginas 16-20: ilustraciones a colores.
- Bimensual
- vol. 35, no.5 (Oct. 2019)
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The pilgrimage shrine to Lord Ayyappan at Sabarimala, located in a remote jungle area in the southern Indian state of Kerala, is a liminal space and site of com- munitas par excellence. Sabarimala attracts people from across the religious and socio-ethnic spectrum, including many of the most socially and politically excluded and marginalized in contemporary India. At the shrine, wor- shippers of different identities and stations in life move outside the hierarchies of routine existence and form a unity an existential communitas, as Victor Turner ([1969] 1995) might have said in the primordial pres- ence of Ayyappan.