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domain. Moreover, all of their subordinate chiefs similarly had their own teyya ̄t.t.amshrines, with similar amalgams of family ...

handily triumphed. His final trial was to single-handedly perform the teyya ̄t.t.ams of 39 different gods in the span of a singl ...

performers have exclusive, hereditary rites to perform each particular teyyam deity in any given locale. Teyyamshrines are often ...

shrine conducting its own pu ̄jarites on the enshrined images. These are usually carried out by its own shrine priests, includin ...

with its particular configuration of elaborate costuming and crown, facial and bodily make-up, and insignia that mark it as an i ...

substance as a sacrifice (areca nut being a regular substitute for a body in tantric rites), and absorbs the life’s energies of ...

apply. The costuming may include elaborate configurations of pleated cloth, and lacquered and gilt wooden pieces, in addition to ...

placement of the crown, the performer is led from the make-up room before the shrine, where he usually sits on a ritual stool (p ...

shrine. Not surprisingly, this will generally be the leading family deity of the most powerful lineage who founded or who presen ...

down to the apotheoses of local chiefs, warriors, and military henchmen. Other teyyams have a more caste-specific focus, represe ...

charters, both locally and in extended regional networks, that sanction ongoing relations of authority, community and worship. K ...

today in the rituals themselves, and chartered by continuing links to prominent families and shrines, on the one hand, and to hi ...

social institutional gamut of worship from the highest castes to the lowest, teyyamnarratives and performances may also harbor w ...

sis between the various castes, in which similar conceptions of divine and demonic powers, and similar technologies of control t ...

times. When it comes to the enduring ritual offices themselves, the shrine priests, officiants, and of course, the teyyamperform ...

that for many teyyamalso defines the space of an alternate worldview and hedge against their continued colonization by Western e ...

——. 1982. “Memorial Tablets in Kerala,” in Memorial Stones: A Study of their Origin, Significance, and Variety, eds. S. Settar a ...

CHAPTER 15 The Month of Ka ̄rtik And Women’s Ritual Devotions to Krishna in Benares Tracy Pintchman Oh Krishna, go to Benares Br ...

frolicking on the banks of the Yamuna river. In later life, he leaves Braj to take up residence in Dvaraka, which lies on the co ...

to Vais.n.avas (those whose devotional life centers on Vishnu). At least in Benares, however, some S ́aivas (devotees of Shiva) ...