5. The Vedas and Upaniṣads

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Introduction xxi
7. Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method
8. 1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies 3
9. Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession
10. 2. New and Inherited Paradigms 33
11. 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity 95
12. 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession 110
13. Part III. Classical Literature
14. 5. The Vedas and Upaniṣads 173
15. 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers 245
16. 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession 284
17. 8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets 317
18. 9. Devotion as Possession 345
19. Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures
20. 10. Possession in Tantra 363
21. 11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession 416
22. 12. The Medicalization of Possession in Āyurveda and Tantra 471
23. 13. Conclusions 579
24. Bibliography 607
25. Index 665