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The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder

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In The Cow within the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores an attractive world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to offer a joyful, imaginative, yet very important reading of brand new religious life. Drawing on nearly 20 years of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living within the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder—a feeling of amazement at being conquer by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can also be made normal, enrapturing, or even comical in a city swept up in globalization’s tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder—apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples—into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow within the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual whilst reshaping our appreciation of wonder’s transformative potential for scholarship and for life.

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