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Notes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot
Toggle the cite modalThis book explores the richness of Pakistans religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the use of sorcery to contend with the jinns that... Read more
Published: 2008
Pages: 253
eBook: 9781845533458
David Pinault
Fabrizio M. Ferrari is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. Thomas Dahnhardt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies on Mediterranean and Africa at the Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia.