Frederick, Smith M <br/><br/>
Deity and sprit pissession in South Asia/ 
Smith M Frederick 
 - Delhi:  Columbia University Press,  2009. 
 - 701 p. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method<br/>I. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies<br/>Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession<br/>2. New and Inherited Paradigms:<br/>Methodologies for the Study of Possession<br/>3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity<br/>4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession<br/>Part 111. Classical Literature<br/>S. The Vedas and Upanisads<br/>6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers: The Panorama<br/>of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics<br/>7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession<br/>8. VampireSy Proytitutes, and Poets: Narrativity and the Aesthetics<br/>of Possession<br/>9. Devotion as Possession<br/>Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures: Possession<br/>as a Healing Modality<br/>10. Possession in Tantra: Constructed Bodies and<br/>Empowerment<br/>II. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession<br/>12. The Medicalization of Possession in Aynrvedn and Tantra<br/>13. Conclusions: Identity Amon^ the Possessed and Dispossessed 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788120833722 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spirit possession -- South Asia<br/>Spirit possession in literature.<br/>Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.5  / SMI