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McGilvray, Dennis Beaton was born on August 16, 1943 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Son of Alexander Seawall and Susan McGilvray.
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Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health & Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka
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For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their view of men and women, and their worship of Hindu deities.
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Caste Ideology and Interaction CASTE IDEOLOGY AND INTERACTION By McGilvray, Dennis B. ( Author )Mar-19-2009 Paperback
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Dennis Beaton McGilvray
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Dennis Beaton McGilvray, American Anthropology educator. Grantee American Institute Indian Studies, 1983, Social Science Research Council, 1984, 93; recipient Stirling award for contributions to psychological anthropology,1987. Fellow American Anthropol. Association, Royal Anthropol. Institute; member Association Social Anthropologists, American Ethnological Society, Association Asian Studies, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor, Reed College, 1965; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1974; Master of Arts (honorary), Cambridge U., England, 1973.
Career
Assistant professor, U. Santa Clara, California, 1972-1973; assistant lecturer, Cambridge U., 1973-1978; A.W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1978-1980; associate professor anthropology, U. Colorado, Boulder, since 1980.
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Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health & Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka
(For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South I...)
- Caste Ideology and Interaction CASTE IDEOLOGY AND INTERACTION By McGilvray, Dennis B. ( Author )Mar-19-2009 Paperback
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Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health & Worship among the Tamils of South India and Sri Lanka
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Fellow American Anthropol. Association, Royal Anthropol. Institute; member Association Social Anthropologists, American Ethnological Society, Association Asian Studies, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Beth Fippinger, June 21, 1973. Children: Cameron Hays, Grant Righter, Miriam Beth.
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Grantee American Institute Indian Studies, 1983, Social Science Research Council, 1984, 93. Recipient Stirling award for contributions to psychological anthropology,1987.Grantee American Institute Indian Studies, 1983, Social Science Research Council, 1984, 93. Recipient Stirling award for contributions to psychological anthropology,1987.