Homage to the Departed makes an original foray into the thinking of some tribal groups in northern Kerala about death and dying. Having realised that the available ethnographies of Kerala are often conceptually and methodologically flawed. Manjula Poyil has gone directly to her source and reports the beliefs andpast practices to do with death common practices as well as treatment specific to age, gender, and the status of one who has died. Ghosts, omens, ritual ...
