Journal of American Folklore, April 1st, 2000
Pierced by Murugan's Lance: Ritual, Power, and Moral Redemption among Malaysian Hindus. By Elizabeth Fuller Collies. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 246, acknowledgments, 11 illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index.)
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of an incredibly rich and increasingly diverse body of literature on Indian communities living outside ofSouth Asia, which is becoming a subfield of inquiry in and of itself. In this significant publication, Elizabeth Collins provides us with an engrossing narrative of the Thaipusam festival as p...
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