"Just some spirits": The erosion of spirit possession and the rise of "tension" in south India

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-144

  Halliburton, Murphy ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopathy; Biomedicine; India; Modernity; Possession; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MEDICINE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TENSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SPIRITUALISM;

EID: 20444395415     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740590933849     Document Type: Review

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