Through the Looking Glass: The Involuntary Cosmopolitanism of Black Magic and Possession in Modi’s New India
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- kali-import-5d09c82fc242d3723377
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- KALI-15-NOV05-007
- Author or attribution
- Kathinka Frøystad
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2022
- Source / repository
- PORTAL / University of Technology Sydney
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- Open access
- Subjects
- 15 Full-Text Sources — November 2026; Kali; Diaspora and Ritual Practice
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Anthropological fieldwork in north India beginning in a Kali temple; includes a detailed Kali devotee and would-be medium, spirit possession, social precarity, and cross-religious help-seeking.
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07. Through the Looking Glass: The Involuntary Cosmopolitanism of Black Magic and Possession in Modi’s New India
Kathinka Frøystad | 2022 | English | Peer-reviewed ethnographic article
Anthropological fieldwork in north India beginning in a Kali temple; includes a detailed Kali devotee and would-be medium, spirit possession, social precarity, and cross-religious help-seeking.
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Kathinka Frøystad. Through the Looking Glass: The Involuntary Cosmopolitanism of Black Magic and Possession in Modi’s New India. PORTAL / University of Technology Sydney. 2022. https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/download/7808/8019?inline=1
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