Spirit possession and spirit mediumship from the perspective of Tulu oral traditions.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry March 1, 1979 P J Claus 45 citations
The phenomenon of spirit possession is looked at in relationship to the broad cultural context in which it is found to exist in a region of southern India. The author critically reviews various attempts to explain spirit possession as solely a psychological or sociological event. Instead, he turns to the region's spirit possession and mediumship cults, oral traditions and social ideology for an...