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Seminal truth: A modern science of male celibacy in North India

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Title

Seminal truth: A modern science of male celibacy in North India

Description

Shows how a discourse about sex, semen, and health is conceived of in terms of embodied truth through an examination of the popular Hindi literature on brahmacharya, interpreted within the context of therapeutic celibacy as put in practice by a modern yoga society.

Creator

Joseph S. Alter

Source

Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 11.3. Sept 1997. p. 275-298.
GN296 MAQ NO.3 1997.

Date

1997

Contributor

seah

Format

Article journal