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17 produkter
The Law of Possession
Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State
Inbunden, 2015
2444 kr
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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. A person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, for example, and in order to be healed performs a ritual involving a prosecution and a defense, a judge and …
The Law of Possession
Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State
Av William S. Sax, Helene Basu
Häftad, 2015
748 kr
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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. A person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, for example, and in order to be healed performs a ritual involving a prosecution and a defense, a judge and …
Law of Possession
Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State
Av Helene Basu, William S. Sax
E-bok, 2015
424 kr
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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. …
Law of Possession
Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State
Av Helene Basu, William S. Sax
E-bok, 2015
424 kr
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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. …
Dancing the Self
Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal
Inbunden, 2002
2260 kr
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Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India. These people are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the Mahabharata. Sax attended and participated in dozens of performances of the pandav lila - a ritual …
Dancing the Self
Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal
Häftad, 2002
684 kr
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Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India. These people are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the Mahabharata. Sax attended and participated in dozens of performances of the pandav lila - a ritual …
God of Justice
Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
Häftad, 2008
536 kr
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God of Justice deals with ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of north India. It focuses on the cult of Bhairav, a local deity who is associated with the lowest castes, the so-called Dalits, who are frequently victims of social injustice. When powerless people are exploited or abused and have …
God of Justice
Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
Inbunden, 2008
1207 kr
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God of Justice deals with ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of north India. It focuses on the cult of Bhairav, a local deity who is associated with the lowest castes, the so-called Dalits, who are frequently victims of social injustice. When powerless people are exploited or abused and have …
Dancing the Self
Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal
E-bok, 2002
261 kr
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For ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal in northern India. Sax attended and participated in performances of the pandav lila (a ritual reenactment of scenes from the Mahabharata in a dance) and observed its context in village life. Combining ethnographic …
In the Valley of the Kauravas
A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya
Inbunden, 2024
1433 kr
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The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel through their territories to mark their borders and to ward off incursions by rival gods. These, identified with Karna and Duryodhana from the great Indian …
In the Valley of the Kauravas
A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya
E-bok, 2024
1283 kr
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The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel through their territories to mark their borders and to ward off incursions by rival gods. These, identified with Karna and Duryodhana from the great Indian …
In the Valley of the Kauravas
A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya
E-bok, 2024
1283 kr
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The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel through their territories to mark their borders and to ward off incursions by rival gods. These, identified with Karna and Duryodhana from the great Indian …
God of Justice
Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
E-bok, 2009
359 kr
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In God of Justice , anthropologist William S. Sax offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India. Based on ten years'' ethnographic fieldwork, God of Justice shows how these practices are part of a moral system based …
God of Justice
Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
E-bok, 2009
359 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In God of Justice , anthropologist William S. Sax offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India. Based on ten years'' ethnographic fieldwork, God of Justice shows how these practices are part of a moral system based …
Asymmetrical Conversations
Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Av Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1936 kr
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Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, …
Asymmetrical Conversations
Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Av William S. Sax, Johannes Quack m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
326 kr
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Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient''s gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, …
