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Drugs & prayers - Indian psychiatry in the realm of saints.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry and religion.
- Islamic shrines--India--Unava.
- Islamic shrines.
- Spirit possession--India.
- Spirit possession.
- Healing--India--Unava--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- Mira Datar Dargah (Unava, India).
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (55 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community care in the mental health sector. The film documents exchanges between various actors at the shrine and listens to the stories of the protagonists. It presents different views on the presumed causes of mental illness as well as on the benefit or non-benefit of medicine or ritual practices as perceived by patients and their relatives.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
- Recorded India 0000.
- OCLC:
- 849668863
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