Feeding, Sharing, and Devouring : : Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India / / Peter Berger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Berger, Peter ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 59
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Usage --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; Part One: The Social Order --; 2. The Social Order: Categories, Groups, Relationships --; Part Two: Rituals and Festivals --; 3. Fed and Eaten: Transformations of the Person --; 4. The Table of the Agnates: Rituals of the Annual Cycle --; 5. “You Are the Goat, I Am the Tiger”: The Rituals of Healing --; 6. Conclusion --; Appendix
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614513636; 9783110649826; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110439687; 9783110438727
• ISSN: 1437-5370
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614513636
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Berger.

Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist, and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether. Food epitomizes the social for the Gadaba of Odisha. Feeding, sharing, and devouring refer to locally distinguished ritual domains, to different types of social relationships and alimentary ritual processes. In investigating the complex paths of ritual practices, this study aims to understand the interrelated fields of cosmology, social order, and economy of an Indian highland community.