God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
Short Title:
God of Justice
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2009/01/02/
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
298
Sources ID:
99156
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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In God of Justice, anthropologist William S. Sax offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India. Based on ten years' ethnographic fieldwork, God of Justice shows how these practices are part of a moral system based on the principle of family unity.