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The Law of Possession

Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State

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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are exorcized, and local gods intervene to provide healing and justice. Such practices seem to be the very antithesis of modernity and many modern, secular states have systematically attempted to eliminate them. Why are such rituals largely absent from modern societies, and what happens to them when the state attempts to expunge them from their health and justice systems, or even to criminalize them? Despite the prevalence of rituals involving some or all of these elements, The Law of Possession represents the first attempt to compare and analyze them systematically. The volume brings together historical and contemporary case studies from East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and argues that, despite consistent attempts by states to discourage, eliminate, and criminalize them, such rituals persist and even thrive because they meet widespread human needs.
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256 pages
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2015-10-26
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Oxford University Press
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9780190275754
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William S. ('Bo') Sax has taught at Harvard, Christchurch, and Heidelberg, where he is Chair of Cultural Anthropology at the South Asia Institute. Helene Basu studied social anthropology at the Free University Berlin where she earned a PhD in 1993. She is currently director of the Institute of Social Anthropology at Münster University.

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