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Veins of devotion : blood donation and religious experience in north India /
Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates blood donation practices within the context o...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2009.
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| Collection: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates blood donation practices within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devo. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813545967 081354596X 1281958751 9781281958754 9786611958756 6611958754 |