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Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health is Worship Among the Tamils of South India & Shri Lanka Dennis B. Mcgilvray
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Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health is Worship Among the Tamils of South India & Shri Lanka
Dennis B. Mcgilvray
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.
72 pages, 36 colour & 34 b/w photos
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 1980 |
| Original release date | 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780944142875 |
| Publishers | Grantha Corporation |
| Pages | 72 |
| Dimensions | 217 × 278 × 6 mm · 312 g |
