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| 100 | 1 | _aMcGilvray, Dennis B. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aSymbolic heat : gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka |
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_aAhmedabad : _bMapin Pub. in association with University of Colorado Museum, Boulder ; _aMiddletown, NJ : _bGrantha Corp. ; _aWappingers' Falls, NY : _bDistributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, _c1998. |
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_a72 p. _billustrations (some color), map ; |
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| 505 | _aThe Tamils -- Symbolic Heat -- Food, Medicine, and Health -- Gender and the Life Cycle -- Hindu Worship. | ||
| 520 | _aFor 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aTamil (Indic people) | |
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