Deity and sprit pissession in South Asia/ Smith M Frederick
Material type: 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: 294.5Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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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