Download or read book Coloured Rice (second edition) written by Suzanne Hanchett and published by Development Resources Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnographic study of rituals celebrated by multiple castes in two Karnataka villages, and accompanying myths. Family organization is described in detail, along with discussion of women’s complex status in patrilineal kin groups, as background and context. Four types of family celebrations are described and analysed: for benign goddesses helping married women, for restless and dangerous goddesses threatening whole families, ancestor propitiation rites, and ant-hill festivals for a cobra deity. Forty-five colour photos have been added to the original text.