• DrChanchal Raj G R

This paper tries to understand the social anthropological subject of debate assumes importance more in a spectacular way than a ritualistic way. It explores the historic factors that divide the specific characteristics of liminality in tukkam as a ritualfrom that of tukkam as a spectacle. The social drama of the spectacle is not without its actors but only with the difference that the liminal nature of the crucial actors in the social drama of the ritual transformed into that of an entire village brought to a crisis from where it is finding it difficult to re-emerge. It also highlights a social-anthropological exploration of tukkam as a ritual that invokes the devotees to transgress the received notions of body and pain. Further, it aims to look at the roles that constitute the ritual into a social drama. Tukkam is a ritual and its present crisis is manifested in its transition into spectacle which is due to the intervention of the state and the related agencies to protect the efforts to stop the ritual

RITUAL TO SOCIAL DRAMA-A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ELAVUR TUKKAM IN KERALA

"RITUAL TO SOCIAL DRAMA-A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ELAVUR TUKKAM IN KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.698-702, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807457.pdf

"RITUAL TO SOCIAL DRAMA-A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ELAVUR TUKKAM IN KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp698-702, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807457.pdf