MARC details
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02399nam a22003015i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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22459969 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230217152135.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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220310s2022 nyu 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2022934443 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780192864284 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
IISERB |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
306.609548 S6173D |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Singh, Ravi Nandan. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
28822 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Dead in Banaras : |
| Remainder of title |
ethnography of funeral travelling |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
RAVI NANDAN SINGH. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Oxford: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
2205 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 163p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"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 sets 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 close-door electric furnaces sit side by side within the symbolic 'inside' of the city. 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. Then, early on in fieldwork, these funerary journeys of the 'dead' had a chance encounter with my father's death in the city. The same set of places henceforth spoke through a sensory logic of my father's death. Dead in Banaras is then 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"-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies. |
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28834 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cremation-religious aspects-Hinduism. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
28835 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Death-religious aspects-Hinduism. |
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28836 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hinduism-custom and practices-Vanarasi-India. |
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28837 |
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ibc |
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2 |
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20 |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |