Preserving traditional healing: some political questions

Priests and mediums associated with "healing" folk cults have also been viewed as empowered agents of alternative modernity, and outside the priest's caste or class-based social context. In reality, the healer is often poor, and belongs to a lower caste. He or she is subject to the de...

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Main Author: Dandekar, Deepra (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: November 1, 2014
In: Economic & political weekly
Year: 2014, Volume: 49, Issue: 43/44, Pages: 19-22
ISSN:2349-8846
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.epw.in/journal/2014/43-44/commentary/preserving-traditional-healing.html
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Author Notes:Deepra Dandekar
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