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100 | _aFrederick, Smith M | ||
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_aDeity and sprit pissession in South Asia/ _cSmith M Frederick |
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_aDelhi: _bColumbia University Press, _c2009. |
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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 |