Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern 9780824837785

In her innovative new book, Kalpana Ram reflects on the way spirit possession unsettles some of the foundational assumpt

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English Pages 336 Year 2013

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I: State Intellectuals and Minor Practices
1. Visible and Invisible Bodies: Rural Women and State Intellectuals
2. Minor Practices
Part II: Gender, Agency, Justice
3. Possession and the Bride: Emotions, the Elusive Phantom of Social Theory
4. The Abject Body of Infertility
5. Learning Possession, Becoming Healer
6. Performativity in the Court of the Goddess
7. The Nature of the Complaint
Part III: Revisiting the Projects of Modernity
8. Possession and Social Theory
9. Possession and Emancipatory Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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