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Book Title
Aghor Medicine
Title
Aghor Medicine
Subtitle
Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
Contributor
Jonathan P. Parry (Foreword by)
ISBN-10
0520252195
EAN
9780520252196
ISBN
9780520252196
Genre
Society & Culture
Topic
Medicine
Release Date
04/03/2008
Release Year
2008
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
152mm
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Publication Name
Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
Medicine, Anthropology
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
229 mm
Author
Ronald L. Barrett
Item Weight
318 g
Item Width
152 mm
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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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 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 medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520252196
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94928841

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Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Medicine, Anthropology
Type
Textbook
Author
Ronald L. Barrett
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
318 g
Item Width
152 mm

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Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Ronald L. Barrett
Topic
Hinduism

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