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Ram, Kalpana.

Fertile disorder spirit possession and its provocation of the modern / [electronic resource] : Kalpana Ram. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2013. - xiii, 317 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-303) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






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.


Electronic books.

BL2015.S66 / R36 2013eb

294.5/42
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