Multiple Voices and A Single Body: Spirits' Embodiment, Speech, Discourse, and Historiography in an Old Ritual Community of Bhutan.
Focusing on a detailed ethnography of mediumship in a Bhutanese village with a well-established religious pluralism, this paper examines the sociality and 'indigenous historiographic' tradition of a marginal ritual as a way of deconstructing sedimented and forgotten histories. It argues that the sha...
| Publicado en: | Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft Vol. 19; no. 2/3; pp. 175 - 199 |
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