3 The Conch as a Tantric Artefact

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Rethinking Tantra through Ethnography 1
6. On Materiality and Mediation: Lived Practices of Texts, Objects, and Media
7. An Ethnography of Tantra in the Western Himalayas 61
8. Observing Participation, Transgressing Hermeneutics 87
9. The Conch as a Tantric Artefact 111
10. WhatsApp Bagalāmukhī! 137
11. Embodiment, Identity, and Experience: Conversations with Tantric Livelihoods
12. Folk Tantra and Healing 165
13. Songs for Siddhi 191
14. Serving the Divine Element in Humans 219
15. Institutions and Individuals in the Making of Tantric Traditions: To Be or Become Tantric
16. The Cremation Ground, the Battlefield, and the Path of Compassion 243
17. The Spectrum of Eclecticism and Conservatism within Kerala's Tantric Traditions 269
18. Tantric Lives in Bengal and Bali 297
19. Afterword 327
20. Contributors 351
21. Index 357