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1. Symbolic heat

   gender, health & worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka
   Author: McGilvray, Dennis B.

   Published: 2003

   Publisher:  Mapin [u.a.], Ahmedabad

   For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri-Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their view of men and women, and their worship... more

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   For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri-Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their view of men and women, and their worship of Hindu deities. This title photographically intreprets this cultural viewpoint.

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   Source:	Union catalogues
   Language:	English
   Media type:	Book
   Format:	Print
   ISBN:	0944142877; 8185822522
   Subjects:	Indien; Sri Lanka; Tamilen; Hitze <Motiv>; Religionsethnologie; Ethnomedizin;
   Scope:	72 S., Ill., Kt.