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Migration and the commoditisation of ritualarticle 2003 • Osella, Filippo & Osella, Caroline
Kerala • Asia > South Asia
This article discusses the effects on religious ritual arising from Kerala male out-migration to the Middle East. The focus is on an extremely expensive annual public ritual called kuthiyottam, which was customarily sponsored by a class of families f...Social mobility in KeralaBook 2000 • Osella, Filippo & Osella, Caroline
Kerala • Asia > South Asia
This book discusses social inequality among Kerala villagers. It begins with the life history of individuals belonging to three hierarchically-related castes: high-caste Hindu Brahmans and Nayars, middle-caste Christian families, and low-caste Izhava...