LEADER 04518nam 2201141 a 450 001 9910782162203321 005 20230721032535.0 010 $a1-281-38565-4 010 $a0-520-94101-2 010 $a9786611385651 010 $a1-4356-5368-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520941014 035 $a(CKB)1000000000535147 035 $a(EBL)345562 035 $a(OCoLC)476162434 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108598 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036950 035 $a(PQKB)11334006 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC345562 035 $a(OCoLC)320325785 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30356 035 $a(DE-B1597)520665 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520941014 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL345562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10229948 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL138565 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000535147 100 $a20070223d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$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. 311 0 $a0-520-25219-5 311 0 $a0-520-25218-7 320 $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. 606 $aMedical anthropology$zIndia$zVa?ra?nasi (Uttar Pradesh) 606 $aAghori?s$xRituals 606 $aHealing$xReligious aspects$xAghori?s 606 $aLeprosy$xTreatment$zIndia$zVa?ra?nasi (Uttar Pradesh) 610 $aaghor medicine. 610 $aaghor therapy. 610 $aaghori. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $aayurveda. 610 $abiomedicines. 610 $acannibalism. 610 $acharnel grounds. 610 $aconflict. 610 $acoprophagy. 610 $acorpses. 610 $acremation grounds. 610 $acremation. 610 $adeath. 610 $ahardship. 610 $ahealing powers. 610 $ahealing. 610 $ahealth. 610 $ahuman skulls. 610 $aillness and health. 610 $aindia. 610 $akapalas. 610 $aliving naked. 610 $amedical anthropology. 610 $amedical conditions. 610 $ameditation. 610 $amulticultural medicine. 610 $anorthern india. 610 $apolitical organization. 610 $apolitics. 610 $apollution. 610 $apost mortem rites. 610 $aradical. 610 $aritual bathing. 610 $aritually polluted substances. 610 $askull cups. 610 $astigmatized diseases. 615 0$aMedical anthropology 615 0$aAghori?s$xRituals. 615 0$aHealing$xReligious aspects$xAghori?s. 615 0$aLeprosy$xTreatment 676 $a306.4/6109542 700 $aBarrett$b Ron$f1963-$01482732 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782162203321 996 $aAghor medicine$93700556 997 $aUNINA