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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Etnográfica
2014
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