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1 online resource (ix, 233 pages) : illustrations. |
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Studies in medical anthropology |
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Studies in medical anthropology.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Generative generosity -- The reform of the gift -- Devotion and donation -- Blood donation in the zone of religious spectacles -- Utility saints and donor-soldiers -- The nehruvian gift -- Conclusion. |
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Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates blood donation practices within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devo. |
| Language |
English. |
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Blood -- Collection and preservation -- India -- Delhi.
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Blood donors -- India -- Delhi.
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Blood -- Social aspects -- India -- Delhi.
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Blood -- Religious aspects.
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Kinship -- India -- Delhi.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Blood Donors -- ethics |
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Blood Specimen Collection -- ethics |
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Community Participation |
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Hinduism |
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Religion and Medicine |
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India |
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Sang -- Collecte et conservation -- Inde -- Delhi.
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Sang -- Aspect social -- Inde -- Delhi.
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Sang -- Aspect religieux.
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Parenté -- Inde -- Delhi.
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Médecine -- Aspect religieux.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects
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Blood -- Collection and preservation
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Blood donors
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Blood -- Religious aspects
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Blood -- Social aspects
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Kinship
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India -- Delhi
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Blutspende
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Religion
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Indien -- Nord
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Copeman, Jacob. Veins of devotion. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813544489 0813544483 (DLC) 2008016733 (OCoLC)225090147 |
| ISBN |
9780813545967 (electronic bk.) |
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081354596X (electronic bk.) |
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1281958751 |
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9781281958754 |
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9786611958756 |
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6611958754 |
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0813544483 (Cloth) |
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0813544491 (Paper) |
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9780813544489 |
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9780813544496 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9786611958756 |
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AU@ 000044594691 |
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AU@ 000048788844 |
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AU@ 000051420592 |
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AU@ 000060620861 |
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CDX 9571034 |
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DEBBG BV040887295 |
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DEBBG BV043073185 |
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DEBBG BV044187512 |
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DEBSZ 422041580 |
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GBVCP 802771394 |
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NZ1 13858474 |
