Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry |
Autore | Barrett Ron <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/6109542 |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs - Rituals Healing - Religious aspects - Aghorīs Leprosy - Treatment - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
Soggetto non controllato |
aghor medicine
aghor therapy aghori anthropology ayurveda biomedicines cannibalism charnel grounds conflict coprophagy corpses cremation grounds cremation death hardship healing powers healing health human skulls illness and health india kapalas living naked medical anthropology medical conditions meditation multicultural medicine northern india political organization politics pollution post mortem rites radical ritual bathing ritually polluted substances skull cups stigmatized diseases |
ISBN |
1-281-38565-4
0-520-94101-2 9786611385651 1-4356-5368-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 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. Dawā and Duwā -- 6. Death and Nondiscrimination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782162203321 |
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Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry |
Autore | Barrett Ron <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/6109542 |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs - Rituals Healing - Religious aspects - Aghorīs Leprosy - Treatment - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
Soggetto non controllato |
aghor medicine
aghor therapy aghori anthropology ayurveda biomedicines cannibalism charnel grounds conflict coprophagy corpses cremation grounds cremation death hardship healing powers healing health human skulls illness and health india kapalas living naked medical anthropology medical conditions meditation multicultural medicine northern india political organization politics pollution post mortem rites radical ritual bathing ritually polluted substances skull cups stigmatized diseases |
ISBN |
1-281-38565-4
0-520-94101-2 9786611385651 1-4356-5368-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 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. Dawā and Duwā -- 6. Death and Nondiscrimination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826607603321 |
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt |
Autore | Holt Frank Lee |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 737/.22/0938 |
Collana | Hellenistic culture and society |
Soggetto topico |
Coins, Ancient
Coins, Greek Elephants in numismatics |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
alexander the great ancient history ancient medallions battle of the hydaspes river biographical biography conquests discussion books elephant medallions european history hellenistic culture hellenistic period hellenistic society historians historical perspective india iraq megalomania myths and legends nonfiction numismatics popular history rajah porus retrospective supernatural success theology of war war warfare |
ISBN |
1-282-35812-X
9786612358128 0-520-93878-X 1-59734-457-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. Man of Mystery -- TWO. A Treasure -- THREE. Picking a Fight -- FOUR. Whose Pachyderm, Whole or Halved? -- FIVE. Another Treasure -- SIX. A Closer Look -- SEVEN. A Dark and Stormy Night -- APPENDIX A. THE PUBLISHED ELEPHANT MEDALLIONS -- APPENDIX B. SOME POSSIBLE FORGERIES OF THE LARGE MEDALLION -- APPENDIX C. THE 1973 IRAQ HOARD -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777369003321 |
Holt Frank Lee
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt |
Autore | Holt Frank Lee |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 737/.22/0938 |
Collana | Hellenistic culture and society |
Soggetto topico |
Coins, Ancient
Coins, Greek Elephants in numismatics |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
alexander the great ancient history ancient medallions battle of the hydaspes river biographical biography conquests discussion books elephant medallions european history hellenistic culture hellenistic period hellenistic society historians historical perspective india iraq megalomania myths and legends nonfiction numismatics popular history rajah porus retrospective supernatural success theology of war war warfare |
ISBN |
1-282-35812-X
9786612358128 0-520-93878-X 1-59734-457-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. Man of Mystery -- TWO. A Treasure -- THREE. Picking a Fight -- FOUR. Whose Pachyderm, Whole or Halved? -- FIVE. Another Treasure -- SIX. A Closer Look -- SEVEN. A Dark and Stormy Night -- APPENDIX A. THE PUBLISHED ELEPHANT MEDALLIONS -- APPENDIX B. SOME POSSIBLE FORGERIES OF THE LARGE MEDALLION -- APPENDIX C. THE 1973 IRAQ HOARD -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819054603321 |
Holt Frank Lee
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Being there [[electronic resource] ] : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth / / edited by John Borneman, Abdellah Hammoudi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00723 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BornemanJohn <1952->
HammoudiAbdellah |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Fieldwork
Anthropology - Fieldwork |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
countertransference cultural studies ethical responsibility ethics of representation ethnographic authority ethnographic encounter ethnography fieldwork experience fragile subject germany identification india interlocution morality morocco personal experience power of knowledge russia saudi arabia social structures speech translation surrogate ethnography syria tanzania textualism the canadian arctic |
ISBN |
1-282-77255-4
9786612772559 0-520-94343-0 |
Classificazione | 73.02 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction -- 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj -- 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit -- 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat -- 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India -- 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania -- 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation -- 8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) -- 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat -- 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork -- Biographical Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789001003321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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Being there [[electronic resource] ] : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth / / edited by John Borneman, Abdellah Hammoudi |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00723 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BornemanJohn <1952->
HammoudiAbdellah |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Fieldwork
Anthropology - Fieldwork |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
countertransference cultural studies ethical responsibility ethics of representation ethnographic authority ethnographic encounter ethnography fieldwork experience fragile subject germany identification india interlocution morality morocco personal experience power of knowledge russia saudi arabia social structures speech translation surrogate ethnography syria tanzania textualism the canadian arctic |
ISBN |
1-282-77255-4
9786612772559 0-520-94343-0 |
Classificazione | 73.02 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Fieldwork Encounter, Experience, and the Making of Truth: An Introduction -- 2. Textualism and Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Encounter, or an Experience in the Hajj -- 3. The Suicidal Wound and Fieldwork among Canadian Inuit -- 4. The Hyperbolic Vegetarian: Notes on a Fragile Subject in Gujarat -- 5. The Obligation to Receive: The Countertransference, the Ethnographer, Protestants, and Proselytization in North India -- 6. Encounter and Suspicion in Tanzania -- 7. Encounters with the Mother Tongue: Speech, Translation, and Interlocution in Post-Cold War German Repatriation -- 8. Institutional Encounters: Identification and Anonymity in Russian Addiction Treatment (and Ethnography) -- 9. Fieldwork Experience, Collaboration, and Interlocution: The "Metaphysics of Presence" in Encounters with the Syrian Mukhabarat -- 10. Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork -- Biographical Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827182103321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen |
Autore | Van Hollen Cecilia Coale |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map |
Disciplina | 618.2/00954 |
Soggetto topico | Childbirth - India, South |
Soggetto non controllato |
biomedical
birth rate birth stories childbirth class system classism colonialism contemporary ethnographers ethnography feminism feminist gender studies gender global globalization home birth hospital birth india international lower class maternity medical technology midwifery midwives modern world national parenting postcolonial pregnancy south india tamil nadu technology |
ISBN |
1-282-76240-0
1-59734-499-0 9786612762406 0-520-93539-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems of childbirth in colonial discourse -- Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era -- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens -- Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth -- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards -- Baby friendly hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period -- Conclusion: reproductive rights, choices, and resistance. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777396703321 |
Van Hollen Cecilia Coale
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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen |
Autore | Van Hollen Cecilia Coale |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : map |
Disciplina | 618.2/00954 |
Soggetto topico | Childbirth - India, South |
Soggetto non controllato |
biomedical
birth rate birth stories childbirth class system classism colonialism contemporary ethnographers ethnography feminism feminist gender studies gender global globalization home birth hospital birth india international lower class maternity medical technology midwifery midwives modern world national parenting postcolonial pregnancy south india tamil nadu technology |
ISBN |
1-282-76240-0
1-59734-499-0 9786612762406 0-520-93539-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The professionalization of obstetrics in colonial India: The problems of childbirth in colonial discourse -- Maternal and child health services in the postcolonial era -- Bangles of neem, bangles of gold: pregnant women as auspicious burdens -- Invoking vali: painful technologies of birth -- Moving targets: the routinization of IUD insertions in public maternity wards -- Baby friendly hospitals and bad mothers: maneuvering development during the postpartum period -- Conclusion: reproductive rights, choices, and resistance. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823927703321 |
Van Hollen Cecilia Coale
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Body of victim, body of warrior [[electronic resource] ] : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson |
Autore | Robinson Cabeiri deBergh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.325/108991499 |
Collana | South Asia Across the Disciplines |
Soggetto topico |
Islam and politics - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir
Jihad Kashmiri (South Asian people) - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir Refugees - India - Jammu and Kashmir Refugees - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir Religious militants - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia scholars
asian studies contemporary muslims ethnographers ethnography extremism fieldwork fundamentalism global politics historians historical perspective human rights humanitarianism india kashmir middle east militant organizations muslim jihadists muslim refugees nonfiction pakistan political conflict political issues political violence refugee families religious extremists religious violence social issues south asia transnational |
ISBN | 0-520-95454-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Names, Transliteration, and Photographs -- Preface: The Kashmir Dispute and the Conflicts within Conflict Ethnography -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Social Production of Jihād -- ONE. Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir. Displacement, Borders, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging -- TWO. Protective Migration and Armed Struggle. Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam -- THREE. Forging Political Identities, 1947-1988. The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages -- FOUR. Transforming Political Identities, 1989-2001. Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime -- FIVE. Human Rights and Jihād. Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body -- SIX. The Mujāhid as Family-Man. Sex, Death, and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body -- CONCLUSION. From Muhājir to Mujāhid to Jihādī in the Global Order of Things -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786240703321 |
Robinson Cabeiri deBergh
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Body of victim, body of warrior : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson |
Autore | Robinson Cabeiri deBergh |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.325/108991499 |
Collana | South Asia Across the Disciplines |
Soggetto topico |
Islam and politics - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir
Jihad Kashmiri (South Asian people) - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir Refugees - India - Jammu and Kashmir Refugees - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir Religious militants - Pakistan - Azad Kashmir |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia scholars
asian studies contemporary muslims ethnographers ethnography extremism fieldwork fundamentalism global politics historians historical perspective human rights humanitarianism india kashmir middle east militant organizations muslim jihadists muslim refugees nonfiction pakistan political conflict political issues political violence refugee families religious extremists religious violence social issues south asia transnational |
ISBN | 0-520-95454-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Names, Transliteration, and Photographs -- Preface: The Kashmir Dispute and the Conflicts within Conflict Ethnography -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Social Production of Jihād -- ONE. Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir. Displacement, Borders, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging -- TWO. Protective Migration and Armed Struggle. Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam -- THREE. Forging Political Identities, 1947-1988. The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages -- FOUR. Transforming Political Identities, 1989-2001. Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime -- FIVE. Human Rights and Jihād. Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body -- SIX. The Mujāhid as Family-Man. Sex, Death, and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body -- CONCLUSION. From Muhājir to Mujāhid to Jihādī in the Global Order of Things -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812261003321 |
Robinson Cabeiri deBergh
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