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Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
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1 edition from Univ of California Pr (March 4, 2008)
9780520252189 | details & prices | 216 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $85.00
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1 edition from Univ of California Pr (March 4, 2008)
9780520252196 | details & prices | 216 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $34.95
About: 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.