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In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a priv
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- Author
- Pinto, Sarah
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812209280
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Medical, Anthropology, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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