pilgrimage
Tourism as Pilgrimage?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Anthropologists have been debating the relationship between the tourist and the pilgrim for a number of decades, using in a somewhat loose way terms such as vacation, travel and tour. The etymologies of the words used for travel, journey, voyage and tourism, as well as vacation, holiday, feast and fair, and…
Sacred Complexes as Centers of National Integration: A Case Study of the Kaveri Basin Area of Karnatka
By: MAHADEVA SIDDAIAH – Though there were a few anthropological studies on sacred complexes in India after the pioneering study of Gaya by L. P. Vidyarthi there was no such study on any sacred river complex. The studies so for conducted focused only on the interactions between pilgrims and religious specialists. The present study was…