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Deity and sprit pissession in South Asia/ Smith M Frederick

By: Frederick, Smith MMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi: Columbia University Press, 2009Description: 701 pISBN: 9788120833722Subject(s): Spirit possession -- South Asia | Spirit possession in literature | Sanskrit literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 294.5

Contents:

Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method I. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession 2. New and Inherited Paradigms: Methodologies for the Study of Possession 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession Part 111. Classical Literature S. The Vedas and Upanisads 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers: The Panorama of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession 8. VampireSy Proytitutes, and Poets: Narrativity and the Aesthetics of Possession 9. Devotion as Possession Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures: Possession as a Healing Modality 10. Possession in Tantra: Constructed Bodies and Empowerment II. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession 12. The Medicalization of Possession in Aynrvedn and Tantra 13. Conclusions: Identity Amon^ the Possessed and Dispossessed

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	294.5 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P13136

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Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method
I. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies
Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession
2. New and Inherited Paradigms:
Methodologies for the Study of Possession
3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity
4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession
Part 111. Classical Literature
S. The Vedas and Upanisads
6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers: The Panorama
of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics
7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession
8. VampireSy Proytitutes, and Poets: Narrativity and the Aesthetics
of Possession
9. Devotion as Possession
Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures: Possession
as a Healing Modality
10. Possession in Tantra: Constructed Bodies and
Empowerment
II. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession
12. The Medicalization of Possession in Aynrvedn and Tantra
13. Conclusions: Identity Amon^ the Possessed and Dispossessed

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