A Bibliography on Possession in the Hindu
tradition
Contributed by Matthew R. Sayers, Lebanon Valley College
Aukland, Knut "The Cult of Nakoda Bhairava: Deity Worship and
Possession in
Jainism," in Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina
Studies, issue
#6 (March 2011), pp. 31-33.
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies/newsletter/file66850.pdf).
Bellamy, Carla. The Powerful Ephemeral. University of California Press.
2011). (For Hindu women in a predominantly *Muslim* context.) Especially
chapter 4 on "presence" (haziri).
Bharati edited volume, The Realm of the Extra Human. c.1975.
Bruckner, Heidrun et al, eds. South Asian Folk Culture. New Delhi:
Monohar,
1983, (esp. 109-138.)
Carrin, Marine (ed.) (1999). Managing Distress. Posession and
Theraputic Cults in South Asia, Manohar, Delhi.
Castillo, Richard J. (1994) Spirit possession in South Asia:
dissociation or
hysteria? Part I: Theoretical Background. Culture, Medicine and
Psychiatry:
1-21 and Part 2: Case histories. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
18:141-162.
Dwyer, Graham. The Divine and the Demonic: Supernatural affliction and
its
treatment in North India. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Erndl, Kathleen M, Hiltebeitel, Alf. Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The
Politics of South Asian Goddess. (2000). New York: New York University
Press.
Ferrari, Fabrizio (ed.), Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia:
Disease, Possession and Healing, Oxford: Routledge, 2010.
Freeman, J. Richardson. "Performing Possession: Ritual and
Consciousness in
the Teyyam Complex of Northern Kerala." In Flags of Fame: Studies in
South
Asian Folk Culture/ Ed. Brückner et al, 109-138. New Delhi: Monohar,
1983.
Freeman, J. Richardson. "Formalized Possession Among the Tantris
and Teyyams
of Malabar." South Asia Research 18, no. 1, 73-98.
Frembgen, Jurgen W. (2004). "The Scorpion in Muslim
Folklore." Asian Folklore Studies, 63, 95-123.
Gell, Alfred (1980). "The Gods at Play: Vertigo and Possession in
Muria Religion. New Series 15 (2), 219-248
Gellner, David N. (1994) "Priests, Healers, Mediums and Witches:
The Context of Possession in the Kathmandu Valley. Nepala." 29(1)
27-48.
Gold, Ann. Fruitful Journeys (accounts of possession in the pilgrimage
context, especially in chapters 2 and 3).
Hobart, Angela and Kapferer, Bruce (eds) Aesthetics in Performance:
Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience (Berghahn Books, 2005)
(With special note on the essay it contains by Steven M. Friedson on
trance in West Africa. I mention this because Friedson is excellent on the
phenomenon of trance.)
Kakar, Sudhir. Mystics, Shamans and Doctors. Knopf. 1982. (especially
pp.
15-89). Explores aspects of possession sessions in eastern Rajasthan in
comparison with pyschoanalytic practice.
Kapadia, Karin. "Pierced by Love: Tamil Posession, Gender and
Caste (In Julia Leslie and Mary McGee's edited volume Invented Identities:
The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India.
Kapferer, Bruce. A Celebration of Demons : Exorcism and the Aesthetics
of
Healing in Sri Lanka_. Berg Publishers; 2nd edition, 1991.
Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle, Annelin Eriksen, eds. Contemporary
Religiosities: Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation State. Bergahn
Books, 2010.
Kapferer, Bruce. (ed.) Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft
and Sorcery (Berghahn, 2002) where I have a paper on a Sinhala Buddhist
trance specialist.
Leslie, Julia. Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women. (1991) Rutherford:
Fairleigh Dickenson University Press.
I.M. Lewis, Ecstatic Religion: An Anthropological Study of Spirit
Possession
and Shamanism. (Penguin Books, 1971).
Mastromattei, Romano (ed.) (1995). Tremore e potere. La condizione
estatica nello sciamanism himalayano, France Angeli, Milano.
McDaniel, June. The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal.
Chicago University Press, 1989.
McDermott, Rachel Fell and Jeffrey Kripal, Encountering Kali: In the
Margins, at the Center, in the West. UC Press.
Nabokov, Isabelle (2000) Religion Against the Self. An Ethnography of
Tamil Rituals, Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York.
Nandi, D.N., G. Banerjee, S. Bera, S. Nandi & P. Nandi (1985)
"Contagious Hysteria in a West Bengal Village" American Journal
of Psychotherapy, 39(2), 247-252.
Nebesky-Vojkowitz, Rene von (1993). Oracles and Demons of Tibet,
Tiwaria's Pilgrim Book House, Kathmandu.
Obeyesekere, Gananath. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and
Religious Experience. (Chicago, 1981).
Pintchman, Tracy. Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu
Tradition. Oxford: New York: Oxford University Press.
Raj, Selva J. and Corinne Dempsey, ed. Popular Christianity in India:
Riting between the Lines. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2002.
Ram, Kalpana. Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist
Transformation
in a South Indian Fishing Community. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1991.
Rizzuto, Ana-Maria. The Birth of the Living God: A Psychoanalytical
Study. (Chicago 1979).
Rohan Bastin. The domain of constant excess: plural worship at the
Munnesvaram temples in Sri Lanka_. Berghahn Books; illustrated edition,
2002.
Sax , William. God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the
Central Himalaya._2008.
Shulman, David and Deborah Thiagarajan, ed. Masked Ritual and
Performance In
South India, 2006.
Simpson, Bob (1997). "Possession, Dispossession and the Social
Distribution of Knowledge Among Sri Lankan Ritual Specialists, Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute, 3(1), 43-59.
Smith, Fred. The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South
Asian
Literature and Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006.
Tarabout, Gilles. La Possession en Asie du Sud (Possession in South
Asia),
with contributions in both French and English. Paris: Éditions de
L'École
des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, 1999.
http://gtarabout.free.fr/Possession_Asie_du_Sud.html
Vitebsky, Piers (1993). Dialogues with the Dead. The Discussion of
Mortality Among the Sora of Eastern India, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Wadley, Susan S. (1973) "The Spirit Rides or the Spirit Comes:
Posession in a North Indian Village in Agehananda Bharati (ed.), The Realm
of the Extra-Human: Agents and Audiances, Mouton, The Hague, pp. 233-52
Younger, Paul (2002). Playing Host to Deity. Festival Religion in the
South Indian Tradition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
"The Work of Possession(s)." Culture and Religion (Vol. 7,
No. 2, July
2006). [Special issue.]
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