Compare these two types of food offering and ritual “exchange,”,what are the differences (and similarities) in what the ritual actors hope to receive as benefit?
Culture of Southeast Asia Description Both Paradise of the Blind (set in the war years) and Goddess on the Rise, (describing the post war years) describe ritual actions involving food offerings. In Paradise, both Que and Aunt Tam – in their own ways – provide food “offerings” to the narrator as a sort of “worship” […]