eprintid: 32761
rev_number: 10
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creators_name: Sax, William S.
title: Performing God′s Body
divisions: i-702000
keywords: Embodiment, Hermeneutics, Ritual, Performance, Social memory
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively
abstract: Bhairav is the central deity in a cult of ritual healing in the Central Himalayas that is closely associated with the lowest castes. This article discusses his embodied form, arguing that it is intimately related to the bodies of low-caste people, whose oppression and suffering it both reflects and ameliorates. This history of Bhairav's body is captured by in local memory and oral history; and its iconography is revealed in songs and rituals. Ultimately, Bhairav's appearance in the body of a "possessed" devotee is his most important mode of embodiment, and one that tells us a great deal about what it means to be a Harijan.
date: 2009
publisher: de Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00032761
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1524/para.2009.0011
ppn_swb: 1832125815
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-327610
language: eng
bibsort: SAXWILLIAMPERFORMING2009
full_text_status: public
publication: Paragrana
volume: 18
number: 1
place_of_pub: Berlin
pagerange: 165-187
issn: 0938-0116 (Druck-Ausg.); 2196-6885 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Sax, William S.  (2009) Performing God′s Body.  Paragrana, 18 (1).  pp. 165-187.  ISSN 0938-0116 (Druck-Ausg.); 2196-6885 (Online-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32761/1/10.1524_para.2009.0011.pdf