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Frederick Smith The Self Possessed (Hardback)
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- Format
- Hardcover
- Book Title
- The Self Possessed
- Publication Name
- The Self Possessed
- Title
- The Self Possessed
- Subtitle
- Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civiliz
- ISBN-10
- 0231137486
- EAN
- 9780231137485
- ISBN
- 9780231137485
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Release Year
- 2006
- Release Date
- 05/12/2006
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 1in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Topic
- Asian / Indic, General, Sacred Sexuality, Anthropology / General
- Item Width
- 0.7in
- Item Weight
- 43.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 736 Pages
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The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic, Ayurvedic, and Tantric texts; Hindu devotional literature; Sanskrit drama and narrative literature; and more than a hundred ethnographies. He identifies several forms of possession, including festival, initiatory, oracular, and devotional, and demonstrates their multivocality within a wide range of sects and religious identities. Possession is common among both men and women and is practiced by members of all social and caste strata. Smith theorizes on notions of embodiment, disembodiment, selfhood, personal identity, and other key issues through the prism of possession, redefining the relationship between Sanskritic and vernacular culture and between elite and popular religion. Smith's study is also comparative, introducing considerable material from Tibet, classical China, modern America, and elsewhere. Brilliant and persuasive, The Self Possessed provides careful new translations of rare material and is the most comprehensive study in any language on this subject.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231137486
ISBN-13
9780231137485
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50872976
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asian / Indic, General, Sacred Sexuality, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
736 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
43.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl1055.S63 2006
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"This comprehensive work should appear on the shelf of every serious scholar of South Asian religion... Essential." -- "CHOICE", This comprehensive work should appear on the shelf of every serious scholar of South Asian religion... Essential.
Publication Name
Self Possessed : Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method 1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies Part II: Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession 2. New and Inherited Paradigms: Methodologies for the Study of Possession 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession Part III. Classical Literature 5. The Vedas and Upanisads 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers, The Panorama of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession 8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets: Narrativity and the Aesthetics of Possession 9. Devotion as Possession 10. Possession in Tantra: Constructed Bodies and Empowerment 11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession 12. The Medicalization of Possession in ayurveda and Tantra 13. Conclusions: Identity Among the Possessed and Dispossessed Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-056030
Dewey Decimal
133.4/260954
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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