In Amma's healing room: gender and vernacular Islam in South India/
Fluceckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
In Amma's healing room: gender and vernacular Islam in South India/ Joyce Burkhalter Fluceckiger - Hyderabad : Orient Longman, 2006. - xix,294p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Preface. Acknowledgements. A note on transliteration. Introduction Called to Amma's courtyard. 1. Setting the stage the healing room its actors and its rhythms. 2. The healing system. 3. Patient narratives in the healing room. 4. Negotiating gender in the healing room. 5. Religious identities at the crossroads. 6. Immersed in remembrance and song religious identities authority and gender at the Sama. Conclusion Vernacular Islam embedded in relationships. Epilogue. Appendix Death and difference a conversation. Glossary. Notes. Select bibliography. Index.
8125033653
Healing therapy.
305.8954 / FLU/I
In Amma's healing room: gender and vernacular Islam in South India/ Joyce Burkhalter Fluceckiger - Hyderabad : Orient Longman, 2006. - xix,294p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Preface. Acknowledgements. A note on transliteration. Introduction Called to Amma's courtyard. 1. Setting the stage the healing room its actors and its rhythms. 2. The healing system. 3. Patient narratives in the healing room. 4. Negotiating gender in the healing room. 5. Religious identities at the crossroads. 6. Immersed in remembrance and song religious identities authority and gender at the Sama. Conclusion Vernacular Islam embedded in relationships. Epilogue. Appendix Death and difference a conversation. Glossary. Notes. Select bibliography. Index.
8125033653
Healing therapy.
305.8954 / FLU/I