Orthodoxies, madness, and method
Academic and brahmanical orthodoxies
Ethnography, modernity, and the languages of possession
New and inherited paradigms: methodologies for the study of possession
Possession, trance channeling, and modernity
Notes on regional languages and models of possession
Friendly acquisitions, hostile takeovers: the panorama of possession in the Sanskrit Epics
Enlightenment and the classical culture of possession
Vampires, prostitutes, and poets: narrativity and the aesthetics of possession
Worldly and otherworldly ruptures: possession as a healing modality
Possession Tantra: constructed bodies and empowerment
Tantra and the diaspora of childhood possession
The medicalization of possession in Āyurveda and Tantra
Conclusions: Identity among the possessed and dispossessed.
