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ISBN: 0191954845 0192679341 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press
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Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters, and mysteriously so such encounters come true. 'Dead in Banaras' is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the 'dead' across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue, and the aghorashram in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well-known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural because the open-air manual pyres and close-door electric furnaces sit side by side within the symbolic 'inside' of the city. Hospital and morgue became chosen destinations because in the 'local moral world' the city is a medical metropolis anchored by a famed university hospital and storied through real-life dramatic narratives of medical emergency, saving, and untimely death. Aghorashram, on the other hand, as an urban Shaivite clinic and hermitage for sexual and reproductive cures works with funerary substances as pharmacopeia. Then, early on in fieldwork, these funerary journeys of the 'dead' had a chance encounter with my father's death in the city. The same set of places henceforth spoke through a sensory logic of my father's death. Dead in Banaras is then both an ethnography of being in the dead centre of the funerary city and an autobiographical funeral travelling (shav yatra) that narrates the city through a mourner's logic of using the pyre to illuminate the dead as multiplicity.
autobiography --- funeral --- Autobiography --- funeral.
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ISBN: 141235093X Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,
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ISBN: 141235224X Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,
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ISBN: 2220034151 9782220034157 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris: Desclée De Brouwer,
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Year: 1992 Publisher: Kottayam: St. Ephrem ecumenical research institute,
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Year: 1802 Publisher: Paris: Renouard,
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Year: 1658 Publisher: [Anvers : s.n.,
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Year: 1635 Publisher: Lovanii [Leuven] : apud Bernardinum Masium,
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Year: 1627 Publisher: Ypris [Ieper] : apud Zegerum vanden Berghe,
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