Symbolic heat : gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka
McGilvray, Dennis B.
Symbolic heat : gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka - Ahmedabad : Middletown, NJ : Wappingers' Falls, NY : Mapin Pub. in association with University of Colorado Museum, Boulder ; Grantha Corp. ; Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 1998. - 72 p. illustrations (some color), map ;
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.
0944142877 (pbk.) 9780944142875 8185822522 9788185822525
Tamil (Indic people)
Symbolic heat : gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka - Ahmedabad : Middletown, NJ : Wappingers' Falls, NY : Mapin Pub. in association with University of Colorado Museum, Boulder ; Grantha Corp. ; Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 1998. - 72 p. illustrations (some color), map ;
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.
0944142877 (pbk.) 9780944142875 8185822522 9788185822525
Tamil (Indic people)