Murtis em movimento: relações entre pessoas, coisas e divindades em um templo hindu na Guiana
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0062
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0062; doi:10.1590/1678-49442018v24n1p103
- Author or attribution
- Marcelo Moura Mello
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- Portuguese
- Date / edition
- 2018
- Source / repository
- Mana
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions
Description and curator notes
Investigates relationships among sculpted deity images, Kali devotees, and religious specialists in a Hindu temple in western Guyana. The article describes rituals addressed to murtis and the manifestation of deities in human bodies, asking how the presence of images affects the people who care for and worship them. Its emphasis on bodily experience and the interaction of persons and things offers a detailed alternative to treating sacred images as merely illustrative symbols. For a Kali library, the study provides substantial documentation of diaspora ritual life, material religion, and the ways devotees understand divine presence in both images and persons.
KALI-0062 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
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Murtis in motion: relationships among persons, things and deities in a Hindu temple in Guyana [catalogue translation]
Author / attribution: Marcelo Moura Mello
Publication: Mana · 2018
24(1), pp. 103–130.
Format / language: Journal article · Portuguese
Identifier: doi:10.1590/1678-49442018v24n1p103
Kali relevance: Direct ethnography of a Kali temple and its devotees.
Context: Western Guyana; murtis; embodiment; diaspora Hinduism.
Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions
Evidence / reliability: Peer-reviewed scholarly journal
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-04. CC BY 4.0, as stated on the SciELO publication.
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Citation
Marcelo Moura Mello. Murtis em movimento: relações entre pessoas, coisas e divindades em um templo hindu na Guiana. Mana · 2018.
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