Anup Jyoti Bharali

SPIRIT POSSESSION: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION ON THE PRACTICE OF DEOUTHA AMONG THE DEORIS OF ASSAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH

PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH September 15, 2023 Anup Jyoti Bharali

Spirit possession can be considered as a complex phenomenon found to be still in practice in many societies around the world. Anthropologists have spent long years of time conducting ethnographic field studies on spirit possession and possession-trance in different societies around the world.Belief in spirit possession and possession-trance are ancient and very widespread as seen in the...