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Dead In Banaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling

Author :  Ravi Nandan Singh

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Country
India
Publisher
Oxford University Press, New Delhi
ISBN 9780192864284
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info xx,163p.;23cm. Bibliography Includes Index.
Product Weight 350 gms.
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Dead in Banaras in its Inception, Set Out to Follow the 'Dead' Across Multiple Social Locations of Crematoria, Hospital, Morgue, and the Aghorashram in Order to Assemble a Contemporary Moment in the Funerary Iconicity of the Well-Known North Indian City of Banaras (Varanasi). The Crematoria, in Plural, Because the Open-Air Manual Pyres and Close -Door Electric Furnaces Sit Side By Side Within the Symbolic 'Inside' of the City.

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