Symbolic heat : gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka

By:

McGilvray, Dennis B

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ahmedabad : Mapin Pub. in association with University of Colorado Museum, Boulder ; Middletown, NJ : Grantha Corp. ; Wappingers' Falls, NY : Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 1998.Description: 72 p. illustrations (some color), mapISBN:

0944142877 (pbk.)
9780944142875
8185822522
9788185822525

Subject(s):

Tamil (Indic people)

Contents:

The Tamils -- Symbolic Heat -- Food, Medicine, and Health -- Gender and the Life Cycle -- Hindu Worship.

Summary: For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri-Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their view of men and women, and their worship of Hindu deities. This title photographically intreprets this cultural viewpoint.

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The Tamils --
Symbolic Heat --
Food, Medicine, and Health --
Gender and the Life Cycle --
Hindu Worship.

For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri-Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their view of men and women, and their worship of Hindu deities. This title photographically intreprets this cultural viewpoint.

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