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Veins of devotion : blood donation and religious experience in north India
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ISBN: 1281958751 9786611958756 081354596X 9780813545967 0813544483 0813544491 9780813544489 9780813544496 9781281958754 6611958754 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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According to public health orthodoxy, blood for transfusion is safer when derived from voluntary, nonremunerated donors. As developing nations phase out compensated blood collection efforts to comply with this current policy, many struggle to keep their blood stores up. Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates the practice within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity. Despite tensions between blood banks and these religious groups, their collaboration is a remarkable success storyùthe nation's blood supply is replenished while blood donors discover new devotional possibilities.


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Gurus and Media
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ISBN: 1800085788 1800085796 Year: 2023 Publisher: UCL Press

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The guru in South Asia : new interdisciplinary perspectives
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ISBN: 1280874333 9786613715647 113629807X 1136298061 0203116259 0415510198 1138785229 9780415510196 9781138785229 Year: 2012 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their


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Hematologies : The Political Life of Blood in India
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ISBN: 1501761684 1501745107 1501745093 1501745115 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"Hematologies examines how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life in north India in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--


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Gurus and Media: Sound, image, machine, text and the digital
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ISBN: 9781800085565 1800085567 9781800085558 1800085559 9781800085541 1800085540 Year: 2023 Publisher: UCL Press

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Fake : Anthropological Keywords
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ISBN: 9780997367577 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago Hau Books

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Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, bullshit, frauds, knock offs—such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. But what does the modern human obsession with fabrications and frauds tell us about ourselves? And what can anthropology tell us about this obsession? This timely book is the product of the first Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords, a collaborative project between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L’Homme, held each year at the American Anthropological Association Meetings. The aim of the debate is reflect critically on keywords and terms that play a pivotal and timely role in discussions of different cultures and societies, and of the relations between them. This book, with multiple authors, explodes open our common sense notions of “novelty,” “originality,” and “truth,” questioning how cultures where deception and mistrust flourish seem to produce effective, albeit opaque, forms of sociality.

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An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange : Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
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ISBN: 9781805390763 1805390767 1805390708 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such 'intellectual exchange' is also central to anthropologists' own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.


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Fake : Anthropological Keywords
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ISBN: 9780997367577 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago : HAU Books,

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Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, bullshit, frauds, knock offs-such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. But what does the modern human obsession with fabrications and frauds tell us about ourselves? And what can anthropology tell us about this obsession? This timely book is the product of the first Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords, a collaborative project between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L'Homme, held each year at the American Anthropological Association Meetings. The aim of the debate is reflect critically on keywords and terms that play a pivotal and timely role in discussions of different cultures and societies, and of the relations between them. This book, with multiple authors, explodes open our common sense notions of "novelty," "originality," and "truth," questioning how cultures where deception and mistrust flourish seem to produce effective, albeit opaque, forms of sociality.

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