Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Orthography -- Introduction -- 1 Orientations and Overview -- 2 Muharram Rituals in Iran:Past and Present -- 3 The Passage of Rites to South Asia -- 4 Onward to the Caribbean -- 5 Building the Tadjah, Constructing Community -- 6 Conclusion: Maintenance and Transformation via Cultural Creolization -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
"Hosay Trinidad contributes substantially to the anthropology of contemporary identity politics as well as to the study of 'boundaries' which has come to play a key role in important new lines of scholarship across the social sciences."--Anthropos
Analysis
Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index
Notes
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