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200 10$aAghor medicine$b[electronic resource] $epollution, death, and healing in northern India /$fRon Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (240 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tForeword --$tNote on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Cosmic Sink --$t2. Fire in the Well --$t3. The Reformation --$t4. The Wrong Side of the River --$t5. Daw? and Duw? --$t6. Death and Nondiscrimination --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tReferences --$tIndex
330   $aFor 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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