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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
Pierre Bourdieu's habitus explains how dispositions internalise through exposure, a process the essay extends into mediated circulation: familiarity supports acceptance, and narratives that travel widely acquire the weight of truth. Rural Odisha...
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
During Raja, the earth is imagined as a living, resting body, celebrated through ritual as feminine energy in seasonal transition. The essay reveals how agrarian societies encode ecological respect into cultural cycles,...
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