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Wandering with Sadhus - Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas (Paperback)
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Wandering with Sadhus - Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas (Paperback)
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers-sadhus or
ascetics-in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a
paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their
solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social
commitments, and their break with family and community, renouncers
in fact regularly interact with "householder" society. They form a
distinctive, alternative community with its own internal structure,
but one that is not located in any single place. Highly mobile and
dispersed across the subcontinent, its members are regularly
brought together through pilgrimage circuits on festival cycles.
Drawing on many years of fieldwork, Hausner presents intimate
portraits of individual sadhus as she examines the shared views of
space, time, and the body that create the ground for everyday
experience. Written with an extraordinary blend of empathy,
compassion, and anthropological insight, this study will appeal to
scholars, students, and general readers alike.
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