La déesse et le saint. Acculturation et « communalisme » hindou-musulman dans un lieu de culte du sud de l'Inde (Karnataka) - article ; n°4 ; vol.47, pg 789-813

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1992 - Volume 47 - Numéro 4 - Pages 789-813
The Goddess and the Saint Acculturation and Communalism. Place of Worship in the South India Karnataka.
The ethnography of South-Indian place of worship shared by Hindu goddess and an Islamic saint, enables us to shed light on the complexities of relations between Hindus and Muslims. It also exposes the richness of symbolic code produced by nearly millenary co-existence - which has not always been peaceful. This mutual accomodation, today still the basis of Indian identity, results from the continous cons truction of tradition reconstruction of the past which often serves to legitimize the state of the present. However, in conformity with general developments in contemporary Indian history, a polarization is taking place, pointing to rupture or at least decrease in previous collaboration it is the sign of communitary crisialization and withdrawal into separate identities.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.