God of Justice
Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2009
297 pages
978-0-19-971467-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 on the principle of family unity.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1. Introduction: Fieldwork among the Harijans
- 2. God of Justice
- 3. Landscape, Memory, and Ritual
- 4. Oracles, Gurus, and Distributed Agency
- 5. Rituals of Family Unity
- 6. Families and Their Ghosts
- 7. Sending the God Back
- 8. Postscript: Ritual Healing and Modernity
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
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