Drugs & prayers - Indian psychiatry in the realm of saints.
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...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles. |
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London, UK :
Royal Anthropological Institute,
2001.
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online ;
volume 2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (55 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:55:02 |