Spirit possession and spirit mediumship from the perspective of Tulu oral traditions
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
- Vol. 3 (1) , 29-52
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00114691
Abstract
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 ethnographically relevant interpretation of spirit possession.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Shamanism in South IndiaSouthwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1957