The Red Thread: Healing Possession at a Muslim Shrine in North India

The Red Thread: Healing Possession at a Muslim Shrine in North India
ISBN-10
8187879637
ISBN-13
9788187879633
Series
The Red Thread
Category
Cemeteries
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Aakar Books
Author
Beatrix Pfleiderer

Description

Foreword Preface: Two Fables 1. Introduction 2. The Cunning Women 3. The Question, the Journey and the Field The QuestionThe JourneyThe Field4. Mira Datar Dargah ArrivalThe Tomb and its Order5. The Women's Stage Cult and Cure at the Mira Datar Dargah IDramatis Personae IDramatis Personae IIThe Body, its Demon and the Hair: the BallaThe ConfessionThe Curse, the Spirits and their MagiciansThe Female Anthropologist's DreamA Drama: Concerning Bees, Ethnographers andtheir SpiritsThe Goddess and the Human SacrificesThe Punishments: On the Reversal of TimeThe Contest of the DemonsThe Battle: the Sain.

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