Journeys and Their Afterlives. Issue 2 (2nd December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bedi, Tarini
• Is Part Of: Anthropology and humanism. Volume 41:Issue 2(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 196
• Page End: 205
• Publication Date: 2016-12-02
• Subjects: Anthropology -- Periodicals; Humanism -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1111/anhu.12127
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1559-9167

Abstract

SUMMARY: This piece is about the disjointed experiences of death, grief, and gendered Hindu religiosity in contemporary India. The religious rituals surrounding death animate journeys of all kinds—between the spaces of these rituals; between religious belief and skepticism; between the sentimentality of the past and the present realities of loss; between home, kinship obligations, and a transnational world; and between changing norms of the family. [death, gender, grief, Hindu ritual, India]