Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Note on Transliteration xiii Introduction 1 Part I: State Intellectuals and Minor Practices 11 1. Visible and Invisible Bodies: Rural Women and State Intellectuals 13 2. Minor Practices 42 Part II: Gender, Agency, Justice 71 3. Possession and the Bride: Emotions, the Elusive Phantom of Social Theory 73 4. The Abject Body of Infertility 106 5. Learning Possession, Becoming Healer 132 6. Performativity in the Court of the Goddess 157 7. The Nature of the Complaint 194 Part III: Revisiting the Projects of Modernity 223 8. Possession and Social Theory 225 9. Possession and Emancipatory Politics 252 Notes 277 Bibliography 285 Index 305 ...