Most Popular Books by Ron Barrett

For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.

These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities.

This collection of 49 readings with extensive background description exposes students to the breadth of theoretical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies to the implementation of programs in global health settings.

"When three cats find themselves homeless in an alley, they form a singing group with the hope that they will earn the love they need"--

Disguised as a trash bag, greedy cat-hater Lekvar Smirk kidnaps a trio of singing cats, Hal, Dora, and Geneva, and takes them to try out for the television show, Animal Idol.

A parody of the way things really work.

Track 1, page turn signals; track 2, no page turn signals.

Depicts the inconveniences animals would be burdened with if they behaved like people.

O.L.S.

Provides instructions in the acquistion, care, and feeding of weird pets such as dinosaurs, bacteria, clothes, moths, and imaginary dogs.