The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder
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Author: | Tulasi Srinivas |
ISBN 13: | 9780199487790 |
Binding: | Softcover |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2018 |
Subject: | Anthropology and Sociology |
About the Book
In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder—a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime.