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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Barrett, Ron, 1963-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Sujets:
Medical anthropology > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs > Rituals.
Healing > Religious aspects > Aghorīs.
Leprosy > Treatment > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Attitude to Death > ethnology
Ceremonial Behavior
Health Services, Indigenous
Religion and Medicine
Rural Health Services
Spiritual Therapies > methods
Aghorīs > Rituel.
Lèpre > Traitement > Inde > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Leprosy > Treatment.
Medical anthropology.
India
India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
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