Now how to define a "wayside" shrine? The term "wayside" appears to be built on a value judgment. If something is said to be "to the side of the way," it is because the way does not lead to it, but elsewhere. A wayside shrine would be a shrine that one sees in passing, on the way to somewhere else, and not a destination. If we put aside this judgment (it seems to be the perspective of the non-pious observer; this point would require at least an ethnographic confirmation from the users of these shrines), and if we suppose that Enshrining Space: Shrines, Public Space and Hinduization among the Kulung of ...

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