Fertile Disorder : Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern /

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In her innovative new book, Kalpana Ram reflects on the way spirit possession unsettles some of the foundational assumptions of modernity. What is a human subject under the varied conditions commonly associated with possession? What kind of subjectivity must already be in place to allow such a trans...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ram, Kalpana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bezetenheid.
Familienplanung
Volksglaube
Besessenheit
Spirit possession
Folk religion
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Possession par les esprits > Inde > Tamil Nadu > Études de cas.
Femmes en milieu rural > Inde > Tamil Nadu > Vie religieuse > Études de cas.
Religion populaire > Inde > Tamil Nadu.
Planification familiale > Politique gouvernementale > Inde > Tamil Nadu.
Spirit possession > India > Tamil Nadu > Case studies.
Rural women > Religious life > India > Tamil Nadu > Case studies.
Folk religion > India > Tamil Nadu.
Family planning > Government policy > India > Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu (Inde)
Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu
India > Tamil Nadu
Case studies
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Visible and invisible bodies : rural women and state intellectuals
  • Minor practices
  • Possession and the bride : emotions, the elusive phantom of social theory
  • The abject body of infertility
  • Learning possession, becoming healer
  • Performativity in the court of the goddess
  • The nature of the complaint
  • Possession and social theory
  • Possession and emancipatory politics.

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