Death in Banaras Paperback - 1995
by Jonathan P. Parry
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Details
- Title Death in Banaras
- Author Jonathan P. Parry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1995-03-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780521466257_pod
- ISBN 9780521466257 / 0521466253
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.04 x 0.77 in (22.81 x 15.34 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Hindu
- Library of Congress subjects Hinduism - Customs and practices, Death - Religious aspects - Hinduism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93031990
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.538
From the rear cover
As 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. All 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.
