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The Skin and the Self: A Note on the Limits of the Body in Brahmanic India
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Charles Malamoud
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September 25, 2009
Abstract
This paper discusses some aspects and moments of the Vedic ritual in which the skin of an animal, when removed from the body to which it belonged, may either be used as a cloth and/or as a symbol, or transformed into the living skin of a new body it is meant to cover (earth for instance). The formulas one has to recite while performing these rituals operate this shift from nature to artefact and back to nature.
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2009-09
© by Akademie Verlag, Berlin, Germany
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