Dead In Banaras (Record no. 66631)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780192864284
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name ; CBS Publishers & Distributors
Distributor address ; 204, FIE, Industrial Area, Patparganj, New Delhi
Bill Number ; COR/IN/26/7697
Bill Date ; 05/11/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.954 SIN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Singh, Ravi Nandan.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Dead In Banaras
Remainder of title : Ethnography of Funeral Travelling.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Ravi Nandan Singh.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2022.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 163p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1046.50
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
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 set 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 closed-door electric furnaces sit side by side within the symbolic inside of the city. The 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. Early on, while undertaking fieldwork, these funerary journeys of the' dead' had a chance encounter with the author's father's death in the city. The same set of places, thereafter, spoke through the sensory logic of the author's father's death. Dead in Banaras is, thus, 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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethnography of Funeral
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Banaras
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dead in Banaras
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ravi Nandan Singh
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 19/11/2025 CBS Publisher & Distributors 1046.50   306.954 SIN 31227 19/11/2025 19/11/2025 Books Faculty / Staff Publication
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