Caring for Divine Infrastructures: Nature and Spirits in a Special Economic Zone in India.
This paper investigates spirit (būta) worship in a special economic zone (SEZ) in India by considering practices of care around specific constellations of nature and infrastructure: fluid, contingent assemblages of the ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ environments. Occult phenomena in modern settings have...
| Publicado en: | Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 690 - 711 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2017
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