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In previous studies of South Asian Tantric ritual, scholars tend to focus on one region or context. For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala: Embodying the Goddess-clan offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala. In this book, Matthew Martin advances a new theory of ritual, which spotlights the way dancer-mediums embody medieval goddess-clans and ancestor deities, through offerings of food and sacrifice, that synchronize their denizens with the land in spiralling web-like ritual networks. Uniquely interdisciplinary in style, this study synthesizes cultural history, ethnography, and theory to explore the continuities - historical, societal, and political - that characterize these ritual traditions across the subcontinent.

Shaktism --- Theyyam (Dance) --- Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- Religious dance --- Mediums --- Religion and politics --- Rituals. --- Religious aspects --- Shaktism. --- Durgā --- Cult --- 294.3*93 --- 294.3*93 Tantrisme. Vajrayana. Matrayana --- Tantrisme. Vajrayana. Matrayana --- Rituals --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Channelers (Mediums) --- Channellers (Mediums) --- Channels (Mediums) --- Spiritualists --- Liturgical dance --- Religious dance, Modern --- Ritual dance --- Sacred dance --- Dance --- Fasts and feasts --- Kaaliyattam (Dance) --- Teyyam (Dance) --- Theyattam (Dance) --- Political aspects --- Hinduism