The Urban Ritual: Ritual and Counter-Ritual During Muḥarram in Mumbai.
Muḥarram rituals have been constantly reinvented in Mumbai during the last two centuries. The format of Muḥarram commemoration, as practiced today, is the result of intensive negotiations and tensions between diverse ethnoreligious groups that have settled in Mumbai. This article examines how over t...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 84; no. 1; pp. 43 - 65 |
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Nanzan University
2025
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