Soil, self, resistance: late-modernity and locative spirit possession in Kerala
La possession en Asie du Sud 1999 Yasushi Uchiyamada 3 citations
I present a place-centred and low-caste view of spirit affliction/possession with reference to person-kuṭumpam (descent group)-soil continuity and interaction in late-modern Kerala, where previous boundary processes have been subjugated to a new set of boundary processes that mixed-up what was formerly unmixable. The person-kuṭumpam-soil consubstantiality, which is expressed in mortuary...