Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 28: Verbal Abuse, Mantra, Hookah
11 Apr 2016
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Possessed by cousin taraka, who commited suicide by drowning in a well. Curing techniques: engaging the ghost in conversaion, idenifying it, and trying to saisfy its wishes/demands so it would leave voluntarily, driving it away with verbal abuse, physically painful or unpleasant measures (applied to vicim, aimed at ghost) Singing hookah water on eyes, pulling on braids. Death: hindus believe that soul goes through cycle of rebirths, but irst their soul travels to the land of the dead, if karma is unusually good, leave the cycle of rebirth and join the universal. Absolute: soul may become a ghost that lingers, hauning the places that it lived and died. Social and psychological adjustment: women leave their village to setle in their husband"s village, oten new surroundings.
