Book Cover
Streaming video

Title Drugs & prayers - Indian psychiatry in the realm of saints
Published London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (55 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
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)
This edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles
Subject Psychiatry and religion.
Islamic shrines -- India
Spirit possession -- India
Healing -- India -- Religious aspects
Healing -- Religious aspects.
Islamic shrines.
Psychiatry and religion.
Spirit possession.
SUBJECT Mira Datar Dargah (Unava, India)
Subject India.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Basu, Helena, director