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9781781791288 | Equinox, October 31, 2016, cover price $100.00
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9781781791295 | Reprint edition (Equinox, October 31, 2016), cover price $29.95
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9781781791196 | Equinox, December 31, 2016, cover price $100.00
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9781781791202 | Reprint edition (Equinox, December 31, 2016), cover price $29.95
Product Description: This volume examines notions of health and illness in North Indian devotional culture, with particular attention paid to the worship of the goddess Sitala, the Cold Lady. Consistently portrayed in colonial and postcolonial literature as the ambiguous 'smallpox goddess', Sitala is here discussed as a protector of children and women, a portrayal that emerges from textual sources as well as material culture...read more
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9781441148292 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 15, 2015, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: This volume examines notions of health and illness in North Indian devotional culture, with particular attention paid to the worship of the goddess Sitala, the Cold Lady.
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9781441163806 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 15, 2015, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Discussions on non-human animals, other-than-human persons and religion originally emerged within the context of Christian theology, eco-theology and Western-based environmentalism. In response to that, and by adhering to post-modern discourses on, for instance, indigeneity, mimicry and hybridity, the volume explores South Asian cultural manifestations and aspects of localised knowledge in relation to the construction and the Otherisation of the concept of body and behaviour in non-human animals...read more
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9781908049582, titled "Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts: Non-Human Animals in South Asian Myth, Ritual and Folklore" | Equinox, October 31, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Discussions on non-human animals, other-than-human persons and religion originally emerged within the context of Christian theology, eco-theology and Western-based environmentalism.
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9781908049599 | Equinox, October 31, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Discussions on non-human animals, other-than-human persons and religion originally emerged within the context of Christian theology, eco-theology and Western-based environmentalism.
Product Description: Ernesto de Martino was a major critical thinker in the study of vernacular religions, producing innovative analyses of key concepts such as 'folklore', 'magic' and 'ritual'. His methodology stemmed from his training under the philosopher Benedetto Croce whilst his philosophical approach to anthropology borrowed from Marx and Gramsci...read more
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9781845536343 | Routledge, June 30, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Ernesto de Martino was a major critical thinker in the study of vernacular religions, producing innovative analyses of key concepts such as 'folklore', 'magic' and 'ritual'.
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9781845536350 | Routledge, June 30, 2012, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Ernesto de Martino was a major critical thinker in the study of vernacular religions, producing innovative analyses of key concepts such as 'folklore', 'magic' and 'ritual'.
Product Description: Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamyâthe marriage of a god and goddessâand a recreation of the life-cycle of earth...read more
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9781906497521 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 15, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal.
Product Description: Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing...read more
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9780415561457 | Routledge, January 20, 2011, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts.
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9781138784796 | Routledge, February 25, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts.
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