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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) |
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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->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Holt Frank Lee
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| Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Van Hollen Cecilia Coale
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Robinson Cabeiri deBergh
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bringing the gods to mind [[electronic resource] ] : mantra and ritual in early Indian sacrifice / / Laurie L. Patton
| Bringing the gods to mind [[electronic resource] ] : mantra and ritual in early Indian sacrifice / / Laurie L. Patton |
| Autore | Patton Laurie L. <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina | 294.5/38 |
| Soggetto topico |
Hinduism - Rituals
Mantras |
| Soggetto non controllato |
atharva veda
bandhu brahmana brahmin ceremony chanting deity devata eastern religion food studies grhya hinduism hymns india indian sacrifice indic religion magic mantra meditation metonymy mindfulness performance theory performed poetry religion religious belief religious history religious poetry religious practice rite ritual sacrifice soma south asia spirituality srauta literature supernatural tradition upanisads vedic ritual vedic vidhana viniyoga visualization |
| ISBN |
0-520-93088-6
1-282-35741-7 9786612357411 1-59875-522-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Poetry, Ritual, And Associational Thought In Early India: The Sources -- 2. Poetry, Ritual, And Associational Thought In Early India: The Theories -- 3. Viniyoga: The Recovery Of A Hermeneutic Principle -- 4. Fire, Light, And Ingesting Over Time -- 5. The Vedic "Other": Spoilers Of Success -- 6. A History Of The Quest For Mental Power -- 7. The Poetics Of Paths: Mantras Of Journeys -- 8. A Short History Of Heaven: From Making To Gaining The Highest Abode -- Conclusions: Laughter And The Creeper Mantra -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum -- General Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783316703321 |
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Patton Laurie L. <1961->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The caste question [[electronic resource] ] : Dalits and the politics of modern India / / Anupama Rao
| The caste question [[electronic resource] ] : Dalits and the politics of modern India / / Anupama Rao |
| Autore | Rao Anupama |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/688 |
| Soggetto topico | Dalits - Political activity |
| Soggetto non controllato |
caste discrimination
caste property caste radicalism caste citizens colonial liberalism colonialism dalits democracy equality ethnography ex untouchables historical anthropology human condition india indian culture indian democracy indian society new political subject personhood persons without rights political minority political postcolonialism regulating caste rights sexual politics south asian historiography south asian history stigmatization untouchables violence western india |
| ISBN |
1-282-36091-4
9786612360916 0-520-94337-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author'S Note -- Introduction -- Caste Radicalism And The Making Of A New Political Subject -- The Problem Of Caste Property -- Dalits As A Political Minority -- Legislating Caste Atrocity -- New Directions In Dalit Politics Symbologies Of Violence, Maharashtra, 1960-1979 -- The Sexual Politics Of Caste Violence And The Ritual Archaic -- Death Of A Kotwal The Violence Of Recognition -- Epilogue Dalit Futures -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778403003321 |
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Rao Anupama
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The cosmic time of empire [[electronic resource] ] : modern Britain and world literature / / Adam Barrows
| The cosmic time of empire [[electronic resource] ] : modern Britain and world literature / / Adam Barrows |
| Autore | Barrows Adam |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.80933 |
| Collana | Flash points |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries Time in literature Time - Political aspects Time - Systems and standards |
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1884
adventure novels backward arrow bram stoker cosmopolitan clock empire geopolitics globe greenwich h rider haggard high modernism human temporality imperialism india indian literature james joyce joseph conrad literary criticism modern literature modernism modernist modernity nature of time negri politics prime meridian rudyard kipling science semiotics theory south asian novels standard time temporality time victorian culture victorian literature virginia woolf world standard time |
| ISBN |
1-283-27744-1
9786613277442 0-520-94815-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Standard Time, Greenwich, and the Cosmopolitan Clock -- Chapter 2. "Turning From the Shadows That Follow Us" -- Chapter 3. At the Limits of Imperial Time; or, Dracula Must Die! -- Chapter 4. "The Shortcomings of Timetables" -- Chapter 5. "A Few Hours Wrong" -- Conclusion. A Postmodern Politics of Time? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785411203321 |
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Barrows Adam
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disposable people [[electronic resource] ] : new slavery in the global economy / / Kevin Bales
| Disposable people [[electronic resource] ] : new slavery in the global economy / / Kevin Bales |
| Autore | Bales Kevin |
| Edizione | [Rev. ed. with a new preface.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.3/62 |
| Soggetto topico |
Slavery
Slave labor Poor - Employment Prostitution |
| Soggetto non controllato |
case studies
cheap slaves dispossession economic globalization human trafficking illegal india labor market legalized slavery mauritania brazil modern slavery modernized agriculture new slavery overpopulation pakistan political awareness population sex trafficking short term investment slaveowners social activism thailand unexpected slaves white slavery |
| ISBN |
1-280-49210-4
9786613587336 0-520-95138-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The new slavery -- Thailand : because she looks like a child -- Mauritania : old times there are not forgotten -- Brazil : life on the edge -- Pakistan : when is a slave not a slave? -- India : the ploughman's lunch -- What can be done? -- Coda : three things you can do to stop slavery. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789944903321 |
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Bales Kevin
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Domesticating the world [[electronic resource] ] : African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization / / Jeremy Prestholdt
| Domesticating the world [[electronic resource] ] : African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization / / Jeremy Prestholdt |
| Autore | Prestholdt Jeremy |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 339.4/709676 |
| Collana | California world history library |
| Soggetto topico |
Consumer behavior - Africa, Eastern
Globalization - Africa, Eastern |
| Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
africa african consumers career college students consumer demands consumerism consumption east africa economic change engaging global politics global relationships globalization historical india interconnectivity materialism modern history nonfiction political science politics postcolonialism social change united states western expansion western interests western world world history world trade |
| ISBN |
1-282-36047-7
9786612360473 0-520-94147-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu -- 2. The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa -- 3. The Global Repercussions of Consumerism: East African Consumers and Industrialization -- 4. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Domestication: Consumer Imports in Zanzibar -- 5. Symbolic Subjection and Social Rebirth: Objectification in Urban Zanzibar -- 6. Picturesque Contradictions: Taxonomies of East Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780640203321 |
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Prestholdt Jeremy
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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