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050 00 $aBL1226.82.F86$bP37 1994
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100 1 $aParry, Jonathan P.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79009335
245 10 $aDeath in Banaras /$cJonathan P. Parry.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
300 $axxvi, 314 pages :$b:illustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ;$v1988
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Anthony T. Carter -- Pt. I. Death and the City. 1. Through 'divine eyes'. 2. A profane perspective -- Pt. II. Death as a Living. 3. Shares and chicanery. 4. Giving, receiving and bargaining over gifts -- Pt. III. Death Into Birth. 5. The last sacrifice. 6. Ghosts into ancestors. 7. Spirit possession as 'superstition' -- Pt. IV. The End of Death. 8. Asceticism and the conquest of death.
520 $aAs a place to die, to dispose of the physical remains of the deceased and to perform the rites which ensure that the departed attains a 'good state' after death, the north Indian city of Banaras attracts pilgrims and mourners from all over the Hindu world. This book is primarily about the priests and other kinds of 'sacred specialist' who serve them: about the way in which they organise their business, and about their representations of death and understanding of the rituals over which they preside.
520 8 $aAll three levels are informed by a common ideological precoccupation with controlling chaos and contingency. The anthropologist who writes about death inevitably writes about the world of the living, and Dr. Parry is centrally concerned with concepts of the body and the person in contemporary Hinduism, with ideas about hierarchy, renunciation and sacrifice, and with the relationship between hierarchy and notions of complementarity and holism.
650 0 $aHindu funeral rites and ceremonies$zIndia$zVārānasi.
650 0 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xHinduism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036099
650 0 $aCremation$xReligious aspects$xHinduism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2020002157
651 0 $aVārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)$xReligious life and customs.
650 0 $aHinduism$xCustoms and practices.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105632
651 4 $aVārānasi (India)$xReligiouslife and customs.
653 0 $aHinduism
653 0 $aIndia
830 0 $aLewis Henry Morgan lectures ;$v1988.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42015260
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