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William S. Sax was born in a small town in eastern Washington State, studied in Seattle, Wisconsin, and India, and earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 1987. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand (where he lived for eleven years), and Germany, where he has been Professor of Anthropology at Heidelberg University's South Asia Institute since 2000. Altogether he has spent about fifteen years in India, and produced three monographs, seven volumes of collected essays, and dozens of articles on theater, healing, ritual, mental health, spirit possession, and psychiatry in South Asia.
William Sax, the leading ethnographer of the Western Himalayas, has produced a work of remarkable depth, maturity, and conviction, weaving together possession, polity, agency, and local Mahabharata performance in a definitive statement on divine kingship a Himalayan area known as Rawain. Adroitly mixing ethnography and theory, Sax shows how local deities like Shalya, Duryodhana, and especially Karna, rule as kings, are woven into local oral literature and performance, mediated through oracular possession and shamanic vision, and manifested in everyday religious interaction. The result is a unique culture that is grounded in intertwining historical and mythological moments. Sax has written a tour de force that will immediately become the standard work for understanding this unique mountainous region. * Frederick M. Smith, Professor of Sanskrit & Classical Indian Religions *
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