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Ancestor Spirit
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Balaji Temple
Bhagats
Capricious Spirits
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Destructive Magic
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Evil Eye
exorcism rituals
exorcist
Exorcist Practice
Exorcist Rituals
Garam Masala
Healing Deities
Hindu healing practices
Holy Man
Home Town
Indian ethnomedicine
medical anthropology
Mystical Attack
occult
Occult Practitioners
Occult Specialist
phenomenological study of supernatural affliction
pilgrimage
Pilgrimage Centre
possession
practitioner
ritual
Sawai Madhopur
sorcery
Sorcery Practice
Sorcery Suspicions
South Asian anthropology
spirit
spirit possession
suspicions
Temple Functionaries
Vice Versa
Young Man
Young Woman's Father
Young Woman’s Father
Product details
- ISBN 9780415297493
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches. The study augments and extends the existing scholarship on a range of issues, including inter alia beliefs about spirit possession, sorcery, witchcraft and the evil eye. The themes of ritual practice, especially exorcism or healing ceremonies, Hindu priests and curers, popular Hinduism and pilgrimage are discussed, and the anthropology of South Asia is explored with an emphasis on medical anthropology and Indian ethnomedicine. At a theoretical level, the book sharply contrasts with much of the literature on spirit possession or on supernatural affliction and its treatment, as the author's phenomenological orientation involves movement away from psychological or psychiatric paradigms as well as from other forms of Western rationalism that have tended to dominate scholarly work. The book thus offers fresh insights, both in terms of understanding supernatural malaise and its treatment, and in terms of the application of the approach the author engages.
