Dead in Banaras

Dead in Banaras  (English, Hardcover, Singh Ravi Nandan)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Publisher: Oxford University Press
    • Genre: Social Science
    • ISBN: 9780192864284
    • Edition: 2022
    • Pages: 184
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    Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the 'dead' across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue and the aghorashram, in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural because the open-air manual pyres and closed-door electric furnaces sit side by side within the symbolic inside of the city. The hospital and morgue became chosen destinations because in the local moral world, the city is a medical metropolis anchored by a famed university hospital and storied through real life dramatic narratives of medical emergency, saving and untimely death. Aghorashram on the other hand as an urban Shaivite clinic and hermitage for sexual and reproductive cures works with funerary substances as pharmacopeia. Early on, while undertaking fieldwork, these funerary journeys of the' dead' had a chance encounter with the author's father's death in the city. The same set of places, thereafter, spoke through the sensory logic of the author's father's death. Dead in Banaras is, thus, both an ethnography of being in the dead centre of a city and an autobiographical funeral travelling (Shav Yatra) that narrates the city through a mourner's logic of using the pyre to illuminate the dead as a multiplicity.
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    • Oxford University Press
    Publication Year
    • 2022
    Number of Pages
    • 216
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    • 15 mm
    Height
    • 223 mm
    Length
    • 145 mm
    Weight
    • 364 gr
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