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"Weapons of the Meek": Ecstatic Ritualism and Strategic Ecumenism among Tamil Hindus in Malaysia

Andrew Willford Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Pages 247-280 | Published online: 24 Sep 2010

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Shanthini Pillai. (2023) Multi-dimensional perspectives of South Indian coolie life in selected memoirs by the European plantocracy of colonial Malaya. South Asian Diaspora 15:1, pages 17-30.
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Vineeta Sinha. (2013) ‘Mapping a Field: Forms of Hindu Religiosity in Malaysia and Singapore’. Religion Compass 7:4, pages 115-125.
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Ann R. David. (2013) Migratory Rituals or Classical Dance Forms?: “Trance” Dance and Bharatanatyam as Signifiers of Tamil Identity in Diasporic Hindu Communities in Britain. Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 39:S1, pages 29-35.
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Michael Skey. (2008) ‘Carnivals of Surplus Emotion?1’ Towards an Understanding of the Significance of Ecstatic Nationalism in a Globalising World. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 6:2, pages 143-161.
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Andrew Willford. (2006) The "Already Surmounted" yet "Secretly Familiar": Malaysian Identity as Symptom. Cultural Anthropology 21:1, pages 31-59.
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Alexandra Kent. (2004) Transcendence and tolerance: Cultural diversity in the tamil celebration of taipūcam in Penang, Malaysia. International Journal of Hindu Studies 8:1-3.
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Andrew Willford. (2003) Possession et déplacement dans le paysage ethnique de Kuala Lumpur. Revue internationale des sciences sociales n° 175:1, pages 109-119.
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Andrew Willford. (2003) Possession and displacement in Kuala Lumpur's ethnic landscape*. International Social Science Journal 55:175, pages 99-109.
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