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Dossier Caribbean Routes: Ethnographic Experiences, Theoretical Challenges, and the Production of Knowledge • Vibrant, Virtual Braz. Anthr. 17 • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412020v17d506   copy

Materiality, affection, personhood: on sacrifice in the worship of the goddess Kali in Guyana1 1 Acknowledges: This research was possible thanks to funding schemes of the Universidade Federal da Bahia and to the Graduate Program of Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Many thanks to David Rodgers, who translated this article, and to Cauê Fraga Machado, for his suggestions.

Materialidade, afetação e pessoalidade: sobre o sacrifício no culto à deusa Kali na Guiana

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Abstract

This paper describes the ritual procedures associated with animal sacrifice in the worship of the Hindu goddess Kali in Guyana, formerly British Guiana. Animal sacrifice is explored through questions relating to materiality, personhood and the mutual permeability of persons and objects. The aim is to advance an interpretation based on native conceptions regarding the potential effects of the exchange and circulation of substances between devotees of the goddess Kali, Hindu deities, and ritual artefacts.

Key words:
Sacrifice; Worship of the goddess Kali; Guyana; Materiality; Personhood

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