Description: Written with an extraordinary blend of empathy, compassion, and anthropological insight, this study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers alike.
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"Wandering with Sadhus will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. It will have broad appeal, and yet it treats its subject matter in depth. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion."--Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College
"Wandering with Sadhus is a nuanced, humane, and evocative study of Hindu renouncers in South Asia. It is also a theoretically powerful contribution to anthropological scholarship on bodies in culture, the intricacies of social organization in South Asia, and the lived practice of a complex religious system."--Ernestine McHugh, author of Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture
"Will be of interest to students and scholars who are interested in any of a number of subjects: meditation, yoga, sacrifice, Vedanta, gender, bhakti, pilgrimage, body, space, desire, and liberation. Beautifully written, it is also a wonderful contribution to the fields of anthropology and religion."--Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College