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Ritual Economy and Women’s Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Burlang Yatra (Odisha) and Bathukamma (Telangana), India

This article advances an anthropological analysis of how material substances acquire social efficacy through ritualized circulation, moral valuation, and cosmological embedding in tribal as well as other indigenous societies of India. By criticizing approaches that treat ritual as epiphenomenal to subsistence, it dem...