Aghor Medicine Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India

Name: Aghor Medicine Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
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ISBN: 9780520252196

ISBN-10: 0520252195

ISBN-13: 9780520252196

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ronald L. Barrett, Jonathan P. Parry, Ronald L. Barrett

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For 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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Cosmic Sink



Fire in the Well



The Reformation



The Wrong Side of the River



Dawa and Duwa



Death and Nondiscrimination


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


References


Index