reading
• Ong, Aihwa (1988): The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia. American Ethnologist 15/1: 28-42
guiding questions
• What is medicalization?
• How is spirit possesion interpreted by:
• Psychologists, medical doctors, managers (policy makers), anthropologists?
• What is the aim of these people in relation to spirit possesions under the study?
• How should be dealt with it according to these people?
• How the nature-culture relation could be interpreted on the basis of this study?
• What is the relation between body, culture, and power in the example described?
discussion questions
•Relate the paper to the Douglas‘, Foucault‘s and Merleau-Ponty‘ approach to the body.
•i.e. apply the theory of social body, docile bodies and embodiment on the example analyzed by Ong.