International Quarterly for Asian Studies

Water Spirit Possession among the Khasis: Representation of Fear through Narratives

International Quarterly for Asian Studies September 23, 2022 Margaret Lyngdoh 2 citations

This article argues that genre markers employed in oral narratives about possession by water spirits serve to exemplify human / non-human relations in Khasi supernatural ontology. It is not the aim of this work to add to the existing corpus of theories on narrative genre studies, but to try to analyse how genre boundaries within the Khasi language help shape and articulate relationality,...