The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission

The Jesuit Baltasar da Costa devoted his life to the Madurai mission in seventeenth century Tamil Nadu during the rule of the Nāyaka kings. He was the first Christian missionary to style himself as a paṇṭāram, a Śaiva priest to the lower castes. This paper will argue that his mimetic practice can be...

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Julkaisussa:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etnografica,
Päätekijä: Chakravarti, Ananya
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Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: Etnográfica 2014
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