This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining material representations of these powers through artefacts, animals, plants and natural substances, while also focusing on narratives of people’s encounters with the invisible that may help them to reconfigure reality. Through these two approaches, the contributions examine new phenomena associated with the concepts of "possession" and "shamanism", which otherwise tend to lead research into well-worn furrows. The book addresses a range of themes, including the gods of the Western Himalayas, death and ritual dissolution among Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal, gods and rivers as legal persons in India, and the problem of conversion disorder in Nepal.Rich in ethnography, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of anthropology, religion, spiritualism, sociology of religion, Himalayan studies, sociology and South Asia.
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine & Anne de Sales
Encounters with the Invisible [PDF ebook]
Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas
Encounters with the Invisible [PDF ebook]
Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas
Dieses Ebook kaufen – und ein weitere GRATIS erhalten!
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 308 ● ISBN 9781040049334 ● Herausgeber Marie Lecomte-Tilouine & Anne de Sales ● Verlag Taylor & Francis ● Erscheinungsjahr 2024 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 9431450 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
erfordert DRM-fähige Lesetechnologie