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082			_a294.5 _bSMI
100			_aFrederick, Smith M
245		0	_aDeity and sprit pissession in South Asia/ _cSmith M Frederick
260			_aDelhi: _bColumbia University Press, _c2009.
300			_a701 p.
505			_aPart 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
650			_aSpirit possession -- South Asia
650			_aSpirit possession in literature.
650			_aSanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
942			_cWB16