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Share: Share this page on Twitter Share this page on LinkedIn Email this page to a friend Print this page Amy Allocco, associate professor of religious studies and director of the Multifaith Scholars Program, recently delivered an invited lecture titled “Living with the Dead in Hindu South India” via Zoom at the University of Tübingen in Germany. Amy Allocco, associate professor of religious studies and director of the Multifaith Scholars Program Sponsored by the Department of Ethnology within the Asia-Orient Institute, her lecture drew on her long-standing ethnographic research on ritual relationships with the dead in Hindu South India. Allocco offered an overview of her current research project, which analyzes the abiding relationships that many communities maintain with their deceased kin in Tamil-speaking South India, before focusing her presentation on a class of dead called puvataikkari, who are worshiped as family ....