| 000 | 07224cam a2200853Ia 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | ocn137922248 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20200709055138.0 | ||
| 006 | m d | ||
| 007 | cr cnu---unuuu | ||
| 008 | 070605s2006 nyua ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 040 |
_aN$T _beng _epn _cN$T _dOCLCQ _dE7B _dOCLCQ _dCOO _dOCLCO _dJSTOR _dOCLCQ _dNLGGC _dOCLCO _dYDXCP _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dEBLCP _dMEAUC _dOCLCO _dRECBK _dOCLCQ _dTEFOD _dDEBBG _dOCLCQ _dAZK _dOCLCO _dAGLDB _dLOA _dJBG _dOCLCQ _dCUS _dOCLCQ _dMOR _dPIFAG _dZCU _dMERUC _dOCLCQ _dIOG _dDEGRU _dOCLCF |
||
| 019 |
_a818856095 _a945080356 _a961618444 _a962691502 _a968305114 _a979628502 _a988476021 _a992089890 _a992932933 |
||
| 020 |
_a9780231510653 _q(electronic bk.) |
||
| 020 |
_a0231510659 _q(electronic bk.) |
||
| 020 |
_z0231137486 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper) |
||
| 020 |
_z9780231137485 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper) |
||
| 024 | 7 |
_a10.7312/smit13748 _2doi |
|
| 028 | 0 | 1 |
_aEB00639484 _bRecorded Books |
| 035 |
_a193911 _b(N$T) |
||
| 035 |
_a(OCoLC)137922248 _z(OCoLC)818856095 _z(OCoLC)945080356 _z(OCoLC)961618444 _z(OCoLC)962691502 _z(OCoLC)968305114 _z(OCoLC)979628502 _z(OCoLC)988476021 _z(OCoLC)992089890 _z(OCoLC)992932933 |
||
| 037 |
_a22573/cttgq428 _bJSTOR |
||
| 037 |
_aCE536375-9336-464D-BD58-0BA0C426E032 _bOverDrive, Inc. _nhttp://www.overdrive.com |
||
| 043 | _aaz----- | ||
| 050 | 4 |
_aBL1055 _b.S63 2006eb |
|
| 072 | 7 |
_aREL _x020000 _2bisacsh |
|
| 072 | 7 |
_aSOC002000 _2bisacsh |
|
| 072 | 7 |
_aREL000000 _2bisacsh |
|
| 082 | 0 | 4 |
_a133.4/260954 _222 |
| 049 | _aMAIN | ||
| 100 | 1 |
_aSmith, Frederick M., _eauthor. |
|
| 245 | 1 | 4 |
_aThe self possessed : _bdeity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization / _cFrederick M. Smith. |
| 260 |
_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c©2006. |
||
| 300 |
_a1 online resource (xxvii, 701 pages) : _billustrations |
||
| 336 |
_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
||
| 337 |
_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
||
| 338 |
_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
||
| 347 |
_adata file _2rda |
||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 607-664) and index. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aPrint version record. | |
| 505 | 0 | _aList of illustrations; preface; acknowledgments; introduction; Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method; Chapter 1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies; Sanskritic Culture and the Culture of Possession; The Sanskritic Vocabulary of Possession; Problematics of Interpretation; Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession; Chapter 2. New and Inherited Paradigms: Methodologies for the Study of Possession; Classical Study and Ethnography; Definitions and Typologies; The Devil's Work; Possession as a Form of Social Control; Possession and Shamanism. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aPossession as Ontological RealityŚakti, the Localization of Divinity, and the Possessed; Performative and Biographical Context; Conclusions; Chapter 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity; Chapter 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession; Lexicography, Languages, and Themes; Exorcists, Oracles, and Healers; Reflections on "Folk" and "Classical" in South Asia; Part III. Classical Literature; Chapter 5. The Vedas and Upaniùads; Embodiment and Disembodiment Among the ñùis; Possession in the Early Vedic Literature; Shape-Shifting and Possession. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aIn the Beginning, God Possessed Heaven and EarthTransfer of Essence; The Gandharva, the Apsaras, and the Vedic Body; Chapter 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers: The Panorama of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics; The Mahābhārata, Where Everything Can Be Found; Notes on Possession in the Rāmāyana; Chapter 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession; Possession as Yoga Practice; Possession and the Subtle Body in the Yogavāsiùha; Śaãkara's Possession of a Dead King; Possession and the Body in the Brahmasūtras; Possession in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; Conclusions. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aChapter 8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets: Narrativity and the Aesthetics of PossessionCulture, Fiction, and Possession; Possession in Sanskrit Fiction; Can There Be an Aesthetic of Possession?; Chapter 9. Devotion as Possession; Devotional Possession in the Gītā and Ānandavardhana; Vallabhācārya's Concept of Āveśa; Śrī Caitanya and the Gaubīya Concepts of Āveśa, Avatāra, and Multiple Bodies; Āveśa and Bhāva; Āveśa, Bhāva, and Alternative Vedāntas; Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures: Possession as a Healing Modality. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aChapter 10. Possession in Tantra: Constructed Bodies and EmpowermentSamāveśa as Tantric Realization; Discipline and Enlightenment; Divinizing the Body; Possession in Buddhist Tantras; Tantric Possession and Images of a Multiple Self; Chapter 11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession; The Śaiva and Buddhist Tantras and the South Indian Texts; Svasthāveśa and the Prasenā; Epigraphical Evidence for the Practice of Svasthāveśa; The Ritual of Svasthāveśa; Possession Across the Himalayas; Aweishe: The Indic Character of Chinese Possession; Svasthāveśa in South India; The Mantramahodadhi. | |
| 520 | _aThe Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as ""demonic."" At best, spirit poss. | ||
| 590 | _aMaster record variable field(s) change: 650 | ||
| 650 | 0 |
_aSpirit possession _zSouth Asia. |
|
| 650 | 0 | _aSpirit possession in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 |
_aSanskrit literature _xHistory and criticism. |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aTantrism _zSouth Asia. |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aSpirit possession _xHinduism. |
|
| 650 | 7 |
_aRELIGION _xCults. _2bisacsh |
|
| 650 | 7 |
_aSOCIAL SCIENCE _xAnthropology _xGeneral. _2bisacsh |
|
| 650 | 4 | _aSocial Sciences. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aSocial Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aSociology. | |
| 650 | 7 |
_aSanskrit literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01105239 |
|
| 650 | 7 |
_aSpirit possession. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01130054 |
|
| 650 | 7 |
_aSpirit possession in literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01130058 |
|
| 650 | 7 |
_aTantrism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01142892 |
|
| 651 | 7 |
_aSouth Asia. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01244520 |
|
| 655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
| 655 | 7 |
_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635 |
|
| 776 | 0 | 8 |
_iPrint version: _aSmith, Frederick M. _tSelf possessed. _dNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 _z0231137486 _z9780231137485 _w(DLC) 2005056030 _w(OCoLC)62593708 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 |
_3EBSCOhost _uhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=193911 |
| 938 |
_aEBL - Ebook Library _bEBLB _nEBL908532 |
||
| 938 |
_aebrary _bEBRY _nebr10449840 |
||
| 938 |
_aEBSCOhost _bEBSC _n193911 |
||
| 938 |
_aRecorded Books, LLC _bRECE _nrbeEB00639484 |
||
| 938 |
_aYBP Library Services _bYANK _n2567034 |
||
| 938 |
_aDe Gruyter _bDEGR _n9780231510653 |
||
| 994 |
_a92 _bN$T |
||
| 999 |
_c49119 _d49119 |
||