Health and religious rituals in South Asia: disease, possession and healing/ Fabrizio M. Ferrari

PART I
Introduction
1 Possession in theory and practice: historical and
contemporary models
FREDERICK M. SMITH
2 Is possession really possible? Towards a hermeneutics of
transformative embodiment in South Asia
ADITYA MALIK
PART 11
Possession from the West
3 Possession in an Islamist valley: spirits, Islamists and love
in Chitral, northern Pakistan
MAGNUS MARSDEN
4 Sikh controversies concerning Punjabi pilgrimage sites used
for healing and possession
RON GEAVES
5 Ancestors, demons and the goddess; negotiating the
animate cosmos of Jainism
ANNE VALLELY
PART III
Possession from the North
6 Disease, the demons and the Buddhas: a study of Tibetan
conceptions of disease and religious practice
IVETTE VARGAS-O'BRYAN
7 Shamanic healing: a jhaiikri in the city
DEEPAK SHIMKHADA AND ADAM D. PAVE
8 Calculating fecundity in the KSiyapa SanthUa
ANTHONY CERULLI
FART IV
Possession from the East
9 The whisper of the spirits: shamanic kinship and the cult
of the ancestors among the Lanjia Saoras of Orissa
STEFANO BEGGIORA
10 In the shadow of the devil: traditional patterns of Lepcha
culture reinterpreted
DAVIDE TORRI
FART V
Possession from the South
11 GumSg, WizuriSn and Tan-drusffh: affliction and healing in
Zoroastrianism
RASTIN MEHRI
12 Possession as protection and affliction: the goddess
Mariyamman's fierce grace
WILLIAM HARMAN
13 The obsolescence of the demons? Modernity and possession
in Sri Lanka