House, stage and temple: ritual spaces for Tevaram in Kerala

Mucciarelli, Elena

This book examines the social history of ritual and space in premodern Kerala. It engages with what Roland Barthes called the subtlety of life and focuses on a form of domestic ritual--tevaram--and its translation into the space of theatre. Tevaram is articulated through different types of places; the intimate space of the house, in dialectic tension with the space of the temple and the public ...

Publisher: Primus Books

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