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Aghor medicine : pollution, death, and healing in northern India /
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 e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 216 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520941014 0520941012 0520252187 0520252195 9786611385651 6611385657 1435653688 9781435653689 1281385654 9781281385659 9780520252189 9780520252196 |