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Book review
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Key findings
The review presents Smith's book as a major scholarly contribution on spirit possession in South Asian contexts, spanning literature and civilization, with broad historical and cultural coverage.
Abstract
The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization, Frederick M. Smith (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 13 illus., pp. xxvii+701, $60.00/£35 (cloth), ISBN: 0-231-13748-6
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