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Research Interests My primary research has been on the mudiyettu ritual theater of central Kerala. My theoretical interests include psychology and religion; the relationship of trauma to spirit possession; worship of goddesses and gender socialization; and the religious aspects of performance. I am also interested more generally in the anthropology of South Asia and the anthropology of religion. Current research topics include: gendered nature of initiation rituals in cross-cultural perspective; charismatic Hindu and Buddhist teachers and sexual abuse of disciples.

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Publications * Author of: Oh terrifying mother : sexuality, violence, and worship of the goddess Kā̄ḷi. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. Kali : slayer of illusion. San Rafael, CA : Mandala Pub., 2003. "Margins at the Center: Tracing Kali through Time, Space, and Culture." In: Encountering Kālī ; in the margins, at the center, in the West. Edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. "Kali and Kuli : female masquerades in Kerala ritual dance," in: Masked ritual and performance in South India : dance, healing, and possession. Edited by David Schulman and Deborah Thiagarajan. Michigan: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Univiversity of Michigan, 2006. Producer and director of film: "Ball of fire : the angry goddess." Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, c1999. [Edited by Sarah Caldwell and Laji Mattungal.]

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