Aghor medicine pollution, death, and healing in northern India - Barrett, Ron (University of California Press, 2008)
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Keywords: Medical anthropology : India : Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh); Aghorīs : Rituals; Healing : Religious aspects : Aghorīs; Leprosy : Treatment : India : Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh); aghor medicine; aghor therapy; aghori; anthropology; ayurveda; biomedicines; cannibalism; charnel grounds; conflict; coprophagy; corpses; cremation grounds; cremation; death; hardship; healing powers; healing; health; human skulls; illness and health; india; kapalas; living naked; medical anthropology; medical conditions; meditation; multicultural medicine; northern india; political organization; politics; pollution; post mortem rites; radical; ritual bathing; ritually polluted substances; skull cups; stigmatized diseases