The Resource Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
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Resource Information
The item Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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. This book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. It examines a range of Aghor therapies
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Contents
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- Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Cosmic Sink; 2. Fire in the Well; 3. The Reformation; 4. The Wrong Side of the River; 5. Dawam and Duwam; 6. Death and Nondiscrimination; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
- Isbn
- 9780520941014
- Label
- Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
- Title
- Aghor Medicine
- Title remainder
- Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. This book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. It examines a range of Aghor therapies
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barrett, Ron
- Dewey number
- 306.46109542
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
-
- GN296.5.I4B37 2008
- GN296.5.I4
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Medical anthropology
- Aghorīs
- Healing
- Leprosy
- Leprosy
- Medical anthropology
- India
- Label
- Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Cosmic Sink; 2. Fire in the Well; 3. The Reformation; 4. The Wrong Side of the River; 5. Dawam and Duwam; 6. Death and Nondiscrimination; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
- Control code
- 476162434
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520941014
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)476162434
- Label
- Aghor Medicine : Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Cosmic Sink; 2. Fire in the Well; 3. The Reformation; 4. The Wrong Side of the River; 5. Dawam and Duwam; 6. Death and Nondiscrimination; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
- Control code
- 476162434
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520941014
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)476162434
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