Shamans, mystics, and doctors; a psychological inquiry into India and its healing traditions

By:

Kakar, Sudhir

Material type: Text

TextChicago Univ. of Chicago Press c1982Description: x, 306p.; illus.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0-226-42279-8

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

RC451.I6 K35 1991

Contents:

Part 1 Local and folk traditions. Part 2 Mystical traditions. Part 3 Medical traditions

Abstract: '...brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda.'

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Reprint; orig. pub. NY, Knopf, 1982.

Part 1 Local and folk traditions. Part 2 Mystical traditions. Part 3 Medical traditions

'...brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda.'

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