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Original Papers

‘When there were only gods, then there was no disease, no need for doctors’: forsaken deities and weakened bodies in the Indian Himalayas

Pages 85-94 | Received 06 Dec 2011, Accepted 20 Jan 2012, Published online: 21 May 2012

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