TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGilvray,Dennis B.
TI  - Symbolic heat : gender, health & worship among the Tamils of south India and Sri Lanka
SN  - 0944142877 (pbk.)
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Ahmedabad, Middletown, NJ, Wappingers' Falls, NY
PB  - Mapin Pub. in association with University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Grantha Corp., Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club
KW  - Tamil (Indic people)
N1  - The Tamils --
Symbolic Heat --
Food, Medicine, and Health --
Gender and the Life Cycle --
Hindu Worship
N2  - 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
ER  -