Fertile disorder
Subtitle: spirit possession and its provocation of the modern
By: Kalpana Ram
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780824836306
Subjects: Case studies; Government policy; Rural women; Family planning; Folk religion; Religious life; Spirit possession
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visible and invisible bodies : rural women and state intellectuals; title: Minor practices; title: Possession and the bride : emotions, the elusive phantom of social theory; title: The abject body of infertility; title: Learning possession, becoming healer; title: Performativity in the court of the goddess; title: The nature of the complaint; title: Possession and social theory; title: Possession and emancipatory politics.