Producing locality: Space, houses and public culture in a Hindu festival in Malaysia

Victor Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas have left an indelible mark on anthropological studies on ritual. Basically, Turner argued that there is a dialectic between the mediacy of social structure (characterised as a 'closed society' or 'status system') and the...

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Main Author: Yeoh, Seng Guan *
Format: Article
Published: Sage 2001
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Online Access:http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1/