Dancing the boDy of goD: Rituals of embodiment from the Central Himalayas
Sites a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies September 24, 2009 Aditya Malik 3 citations
One of the important and wide-spread ways in which divinity is manifested in South Asia is through the enactment of religious rituals described in schol- arly studies as inducing ‘possession’ through deities who then speak through the medium of ‘possessed’ devotees. My intention in this paper is to begin to create a shift in scholarly discourse that describes religious rituals that are...