Revealing the ways in which the bodies and lives of people are constructed as medical objects by practitioners, technologies, and textbooks, this collection calls for and initiates new, more textured ...
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The meaning that people attribute to objects necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social ...
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This study interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. Illustrations, maps...
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This study attempts to cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore and history in order to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetori...
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