ISBN:
9780520941014
,
0520941012
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxii, 216 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Barrett, Ron, 1963- Aghor medicine
DDC:
306.46109542
Keywords:
Medical anthropology India
;
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)
;
Aghorīs Rituals
;
Healing Religious aspects
;
Aghorīs
;
Leprosy Treatment
;
India
;
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
;
Medical anthropology
;
Aghorīs Rituals
;
Healing Religious aspects
;
Aghorīs
;
Leprosy Treatment
;
Health Services, Indigenous
;
India
;
Attitude to Death
;
ethnology
;
India
;
Ceremonial Behavior
;
India
;
Religion and Medicine
;
India
;
Rural Health Services
;
India
;
Spiritual Therapies
;
methods
;
India
;
Attitude to Death ethnology
;
Ceremonial Behavior
;
Health Services, Indigenous
;
Religion and Medicine
;
Rural Health Services
;
Spiritual Therapies methods
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Leprosy ; Treatment
;
Medical anthropology
;
India
;
India ; Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note:1.Cosmic Sink --2.Fire in the Well --3.Reformation --4.Wrong Side of the River --5.Dawa and Duwa --6.Death and Nondiscrimination.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index. - Description based on print version record
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