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Clark-Deces, Isabelle

Isabelle Clark-Deces
- Title:
- Academic-Athletic Fellow
Isabelle Clark-Deces is a professor in the anthropology department and the Chair of the Committee of South Asian Studies. Her main interests lie in the experiential force of symbols, in the transformative powers of ritual processes and in the relations between cosmology, society, and self. She is the author of Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals, No One Cries for the Dead: Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs and Graveyard Petitions and The Encounter Never Stops: a Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals. She teaches courses on India, ritual and myth, religion and magic, and on the reading of ethnographic texts.