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Richard S Weiss

Recipes for Immortality

Healing, Religion, and Community in South India

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Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient's physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality. They speak of a golden age of Tamil civilization and of traditional medicine, drawing on broader revivalist formu… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-971500-8
  • EAN: 9780199715008
  • Produktnummer: 13904415
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'570 KB

Über den Autor


Richard S. Weiss is Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions at Victoria University.

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