Learning From India's Kumbh Mela: Annotated Bibliography
2017
This bibliography is part of a teaching pack, “Accidents & Injuries: Lessons From a Stampede,” and is designed to accompany two teaching cases produced by the Global Health and Learning Incubator about health-related risks and responses at the 2013 Kumbh Mela pilgrimage festival in India: Stampede at the Kumbh Mela: Preventable Accident? and Toilets and Sanitation at the Kumbh Mela. Other companion materials in the teaching pack include an instructor’s note, discussion guide, role-play exercise, and glossary of terms. Both cases and their companion materials are suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes in the study of religion, humanitarian aid, intentional and unintentional injuries, public health, and emergency medicine with a focus on disaster management.
The bibliography is a refined revision of a teaching tool originally developed as part of the Harvard University collaborative research project, “Contemporary Urbanism: Mapping India’s Kumbh Mela.” It provides a curated selection of background readings about the history of the religious festival, new resources relevant to global health at the Kumbh Mela identified in ongoing literature review, and publications that followed the 2013 Kumbh Mela by Harvard project faculty and researchers.
Learning From India’s Kumbh Mela: Annotated Bibliography
Source:
Learning From India’s Kumbh Mela: Annotated Bibliography. Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University 2017. https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/12027.