Fertile Disorder : : Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern / / Kalpana Ram.
In her innovative new book, Kalpana Ram reflects on the way spirit possession unsettles some of the foundational assumptions of modernity. What is a human subject under the varied conditions commonly associated with possession? What kind of subjectivity must already be in place to allow such a trans...
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Ram, Kalpana, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fertile Disorder : Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern / Kalpana Ram. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: State Intellectuals and Minor Practices -- 1. Visible and Invisible Bodies: Rural Women and State Intellectuals -- 2. Minor Practices -- Part II: Gender, Agency, Justice -- 3. Possession and the Bride: Emotions, the Elusive Phantom of Social Theory -- 4. The Abject Body of Infertility -- 5. Learning Possession, Becoming Healer -- 6. Performativity in the Court of the Goddess -- 7. The Nature of the Complaint -- Part III: Revisiting the Projects of Modernity -- 8. Possession and Social Theory -- 9. Possession and Emancipatory Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In her innovative new book, Kalpana Ram reflects on the way spirit possession unsettles some of the foundational assumptions of modernity. What is a human subject under the varied conditions commonly associated with possession? What kind of subjectivity must already be in place to allow such a transformation to occur? How does it alter our understanding of memory and emotion if these assail us in the form of ghosts rather than as attributes of subjective experience? What does it mean to worship deities who are afflictive and capricious, yet bear an intimate relationship to justice? What is a "human" body if it can be taken over by a whole array of entities? What is agency if people can be "claimed" in this manner? What is gender if, while possessed, a woman is a woman no longer?Drawing on spirit possession among women and the rich traditions of subaltern religion in Tamil Nadu, South India, Ram concludes that the basis for constructing an alternative understanding of human agency need not rest on the usual requirements of a fully present consciousness or on the exercise of choice and planning. Instead of relegating possession, ghosts, and demons to the domain of the exotic, Ram uses spirit possession to illuminate ordinary experiences and relationships. In doing so, she uncovers fundamental instabilities that continue to haunt modern formulations of gender, human agency, and political emancipation. Fertile Disorder interrogates the modern assumptions about gender, agency, and subjectivity that underlie the social improvement projects circulating in Tamil Nadu, assumptions that directly shape people's lives. The book pays particular attention to projects of family planning, development, reform, and emancipation.Combining ethnography with philosophical argument, Ram fashions alternatives to standard post-modernist and post-structuralist formulations. Grounded in decades of fieldwork, ambitious and wide ranging, her work is conceived as a journey that makes incursions into the unfamiliar, then returns us to the familiar. She argues that magic is not a monopoly of any one culture, historical period, or social formation but inhabits modernity-not only in the places, such as cinema and sound recording, where it is commonly looked for, but in "habit" and in aspects of everyday life that have been largely overlooked and shunned.Fertile Disorder will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in anthropology, religion, gender studies, subaltern studies, and post colonial theory. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Family planning Government policy India Tamil Nadu. Folk religion India Tamil Nadu. Rural women Religious life India Tamil Nadu Case studies. Spirit possession India Tamil Nadu Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824836306 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824837785 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824837785 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824837785/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: State Intellectuals and Minor Practices -- 1. Visible and Invisible Bodies: Rural Women and State Intellectuals -- 2. Minor Practices -- Part II: Gender, Agency, Justice -- 3. Possession and the Bride: Emotions, the Elusive Phantom of Social Theory -- 4. The Abject Body of Infertility -- 5. Learning Possession, Becoming Healer -- 6. Performativity in the Court of the Goddess -- 7. The Nature of the Complaint -- Part III: Revisiting the Projects of Modernity -- 8. Possession and Social Theory -- 9. Possession and Emancipatory Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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