My Grandmother’s Bones

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION

Fieldwork in Religion Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI:10.1558/FIRN.18354

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

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Abstract

This article examines the materiality of death in the funerary rites of a Vaidiki brahmin family in Telugu-speaking South India. In this self-reflexive piece, I explore the concepts of madi (ritual purity) and maila (ritual impurity) in relation to my grandmother’s life and death, respectively. I also consider the materiality of my grandmother’s bones in the funerary rites, including the final cremation and post-cremation rituals conducted by my father and uncles in Hyderabad, Telangana in August 2013. The article concludes by reflecting on the resilience of my grandmother, a brahmin widow for more than thirty years of her life.

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我祖母的骨头

本文考察了在讲泰卢固语的南印度一个瓦伊迪基婆罗门家族的葬礼仪式中死亡的物质性。在这篇自我反射的文章中，我分别探讨了madi（仪式纯洁）和maila（仪式不洁）与我祖母的生和死的关系。我还考虑了我祖母的骨头在葬礼上的重要性，包括2013年8月我父亲和叔叔们在特伦甘纳海得拉巴举行的最后火化和火化后仪式。文章最后回顾了我的祖母的坚韧，她是一位婆罗门寡妇，三十多年的生活。

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期刊介绍： Fieldwork in Religion (FIR) is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal seeking engagement between scholars carrying out empirical research in religion. It will consider articles from established scholars and research students. The purpose of Fieldwork in Religion is to promote critical investigation into all aspects of the empirical study of contemporary religion. The journal is interdisciplinary in that it is not limited to the fields of anthropology and ethnography. Fieldwork in Religion seeks to promote empirical study of religion in all disciplines: religious studies, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, psychology, folklore, or cultural studies. A further important aim of Fieldwork in Religion is to encourage the discussion of methodology in fieldwork either through discrete articles on issues of methodology or by publishing fieldwork case studies that include methodological challenges and the impact of methodology on the results of empirical research.