Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (55 min.).
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005502
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Series Statement:
Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Keywords:
Healing Religious aspects.
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Islamic shrines
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Psychiatry and religion.
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Spirit possession
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Mira Datar Dargah (Unava, India)
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South Africa
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Nonfiction films.
Abstract:
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community care in the mental health sector. The film documents exchanges between various actors at the shrine and listens to the stories of the protagonists. It presents different views on the presumed causes of mental illness as well as on the benefit or non-benefit of medicine or ritual practices as perceived by patients and their relatives.
Note:
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
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Previously released as DVD.
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This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles.
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