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Encounters with the Invisible: Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Anne de Sales

Encounters with the Invisible: Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas

by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine , Anne de Sales
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032932194
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Rout India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 306
  • Original Price: INR 1595.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: South Asia Edition
  • Item Weight: 730 grams

This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining material representations of these powers through artefacts, animals, plants and natural substances, while also focusing on narratives of people’s encounters with the invisible that may help them to reconfigure reality. Through these two approaches, the contributions examine new phenomena associated with the concepts of "possession" and "shamanism", which otherwise tend to lead research into well-worn furrows. The book addresses a range of themes, including the gods of the Western Himalayas, death and ritual dissolution among Hyolmo Buddhists in Nepal, gods and rivers as legal persons in India, and the problem of conversion disorder in Nepal.