Violence, and Spatiality of Hindu Sacrifice in South India
This article deals with the relationship between the sacred, social and spatial manifestations of violence involved in the sacrificial and the caste system in a South Indian village. Our case study of the Mailam village of Tamil Nadu reveals that the spatiality of the sacrificial violence present in the geography of the village is both socioreligious and ideological, while underlining the symbolic nature of the violence of a local conflict between a dominant caste and a community of untouchables.