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ISBN 13 | 9780190883553 |
ISBN 10 | 0190883553 |
Author | Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Drew Thomases |
Language | English |
Book Description | Guest is God is an ethnography of the Indian pilgrimage site of Pushkar, which welcomes two million visitors each year. To locals, Pushkar is more than just a gathering place for pilgrims, tourists, and hippies--it is where Brahma, the creat |
About the Author | Drew Thomases is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion. |
Publication Date | 2019-11-21 |
Number of Pages | 228 pages |
Guest Is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India