This article describes quotidian practices that make use of urban flows in the city of Ahmedabad: erecting roadside structures such as temples and performing urban expiation rituals at crossroads. Both are exemplary for how intimate division relates to vernacular spatial configuration, the former by inscribing religious markers into areas, the latter by expulsion of individual misfortune. While roadside structures become sites of communal identification, conversion, and violent incorporation, expiatory practices displace an unwanted element onto an anonymous resident who carries it away.
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