Himalayas: Sacred, Polluted And Anachronous: Deconstructing Liminality Among The Baddi Of The ...

Himalayas: Sacred, Polluted And Anachronous: Deconstructing Liminality Among The Baddi Of The Central Himalayas Stefan Fiol, 2010   The Baddi are a community of hereditary musicians and dancers in the central Himalayas who once performed a variety of spiritual and secular roles in courtly and village settings. Weaving together narratives of history and memory, this article examines the itinerant lifestyle, the musical practices and the simultaneously divine and polluted social status of the...

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