Recipes for immortality medicine, religion, and community in South India /
In this book, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil South India have won the trust and patronage of patients. They do this, he shows, by offering affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tam...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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