Aghor medicine : pollution, death, and healing in northern India

Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry

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 and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.

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  • List of Illustrations Foreword Jonathan P. Parry Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names Acknowledgments Introduction The Cosmic Sinks Fire in the Well The Reformation The Wrong Side of the River Dawa and Duwa Death and Nondiscrimination Conclusion Glossary Notes References Index

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書名 Aghor medicine : pollution, death, and healing in northern India
著作者等 Barrett Ronald L.
Parry Jonathan P.
Barrett Ron
出版元 University of California Press
刊行年月 c2008
ページ数 xxii, 216 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780520252196
9780520252189
NCID BA91248818
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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