Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India /

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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...

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Autor principal: Barrett, Ron, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medical anthropology.
Leprosy > Treatment.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Medecine > Aspect religieux.
Lepre > Traitement > Inde > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs > Rituel.
Spiritual Therapies > methods
Rural Health Services
Religion and Medicine
Health Services, Indigenous
Ceremonial Behavior
Attitude to Death > ethnology
Leprosy > Treatment > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Healing > Religious aspects > Aghorīs.
Aghorīs > Rituals.
Medical anthropology > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
India
Electronic books.
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Aghor medicine : pollution, death, and healing in northern India /
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Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India.
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