While the medical landscape in garh

While the medical landscape in garhwal is as elsewhere in rural india highly pluralistic , there is an important factor that makes the Garhwali case different from medical pluralism described for other indain and nepali rural contexts. This is the important role in people's everyday lives of practices of possession linked to the cult of territorial deities amongst the different categories of local deities who have an active 'social life' through being protagonists of institutionalized practices of possession, it is the village deities that, by way of healing and divination ritual practices , have the strongest impact on people's daily life. Each village,s tutelary deity has a mobile from called

While the medical landscape in garhwal is as elsewhere in rural india highly pluralistic, there is an important factor that makes the Garhwali case different from medical pluralism described for other indain and nepali rural contexts. This is the important role in people's everyday lives of practices of possession linked to the cult of territorial deities amongst the different categories of local deities who have an active 'social life' through being protagonists of institutionalized practices of possession, it is the village deities that. , by way of healing and divination ritual practices, have the strongest impact on people's daily life. Each village, s tutelary deity has a mobile from called.

While the medical landscape in Garhwal is as elsewhere in rural India highly pluralistic there is, an important factor. That makes the Garhwali case different from medical pluralism described for other Indain and Nepali rural contexts.This is the important role in people 's everyday lives of practices of possession linked to the cult of territorial deities. Amongst the different categories of local deities who have an active 'social life' through being protagonists of institutionalized. Practices, of possession it is the village deities that by way, of healing and divination, ritual practicesHave the strongest impact on people 's daily life. Each village s tutelary, deity has a mobile from called.