Veins Of Devotion
Download Veins Of Devotion full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Veins Of Devotion ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Veins of Devotion
Author | : Jacob Copeman |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780813544496 |
Download Veins of Devotion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates the practice within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity.
South Asian Tissue Economies
Author | : Jacob Copeman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317744177 |
Download South Asian Tissue Economies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Questions of the social implications of biotechnology and biological exchange (the extraction of human tissues such as blood, skin and organs for testing, storage and/or distribution for therapeutic or research purposes) have recently been brought strongly to the analytical fore across the social sciences. This book focuses on the variegated biopolitical milieus of this kind of exchange specifically in South Asia. It ranges widely – theoretically, thematically, and regionally – in examining South Asian variants of and engagements with diverse modes of biological exchange: caste, gender, and blood donation in Pakistan, DNA testing amongst a former Untouchable community in south India and amongst diasporic Indians in Houston, Texas, body (cadaveric) donation in India, the use of fake blood in Bangladeshi cinema, the mobilisation of blood, hearts, and ketones to protest the Indian government’s failure to provide redress or care to victims of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster, and blood-based political portraits and petitions in south India. In considering this complex of issues, this book extends the parameters of classic accounts of the role of substance transactions in the production of South Asian personhood into investigations of the biopolitics and economies of substance that shape people and communities in diverse parts of the subcontinent, describing findings that illuminate how local responses to the implementation of various kinds of tissue economy both reflect and also transform socio-cultural values in South Asia. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.
Annals of Philosophy Or Magazine of Chemistry Mineralogy Mechanics Natural History Agriculture and the Arts
Author | : Thomas Thomson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1813 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : OSU:32435051156420 |
Download Annals of Philosophy Or Magazine of Chemistry Mineralogy Mechanics Natural History Agriculture and the Arts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Philosophical Magazine
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1813 |
Genre | : Physics |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HXH3IJ |
Download The Philosophical Magazine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Pynchon s California
Author | : Scott McClintock,John Miller |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609382735 |
Download Pynchon s California Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Pynchon’s California is the first book to examine Thomas Pynchon’s use of California as a setting in his novels. Throughout his 50-year career, Pynchon has regularly returned to the Golden State in his fiction. With the publication in 2009 of his third novel set there, the significance of California in Pynchon’s evolving fictional project becomes increasingly worthy of study. Scott McClintock and John Miller have gathered essays from leading and up-and-coming Pynchon scholars who explore this topic from a variety of critical perspectives, reflecting the diversity and eclecticism of Pynchon’s fiction and of the state that has served as his recurring muse from The Crying of Lot 49 (1965) through Inherent Vice (2009). Contributors explore such topics as the relationship of the “California novels” to Pynchon’s more historical and encyclopedic works; the significance of California's beaches, deserts, forests, freeways, and “hieroglyphic” suburban sprawl; the California-inspired noir tradition; and the surprising connections to be uncovered between drug use and realism, melodrama and real estate, private detection and the sacred. The authors bring insights to bear from an array of critical, social, and historical discourses, offering new ways of looking not only at Pynchon’s California novels, but at his entire oeuvre. They explore both how the history, geography, and culture of California have informed Pynchon’s work and how Pynchon’s ever-skeptical critical eye has been turned on the state that has been, in many ways, the flagship for postmodern American culture. CONTRIBUTORS: Hanjo Berressem, Christopher Coffman, Stephen Hock, Margaret Lynd, Scott MacLeod, Scott McClintock, Bill Millard, John Miller, Henry Veggian
Hematologies
Author | : Jacob Copeman,Dwaipayan Banerjee |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781501745102 |
Download Hematologies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.
The General Baptist repository and Missionary observer afterw The General Baptist magazine repository and Missionary observer afterw The General Baptist magazine
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555009507 |
Download The General Baptist repository and Missionary observer afterw The General Baptist magazine repository and Missionary observer afterw The General Baptist magazine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Lancet
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1278 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : PURD:32754078345901 |
Download The Lancet Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle