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Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
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
Barrett Ron <1963->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
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Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
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
Barrett Ron <1963->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt
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  
Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt
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  
Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003
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Being there [[electronic resource] ] : the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth / / edited by John Borneman, Abdellah Hammoudi
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
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
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  
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003
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Birth on the threshold : childbirth and modernity in South India / / Cecilia Van Hollen
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  
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003
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Body of victim, body of warrior [[electronic resource] ] : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
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  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
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Body of victim, body of warrior : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
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  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
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