Kusum Aaltonen, Jouko director, producer. moving image videorecording Online media. Nonfiction films. Nonfiction films. Films autres que de fiction. enk London, UK Royal Anthropological Institute 2000 monographic hin 1 online resource (69 min.). Kusum is a 14-year-old Indian girl. She lives and attends school in Delhi. Kaushal, her father, drives a motorised rickshaw and works his fingers to the bone to support his family. Sumitra, Kusum's mother, is about to have a baby. Kusum's family is poor, but their life isn't too bad, until Kusum falls ill. She isolates herself, she has raving fits and she refuses to eat properly. Her family takes her to see a doctor, but no physical illness can be found. It's evil spirits, say the neighbours. Kusum, Kaushal and Aunt Suman journey to the neighbouring town of Hapur, where Bhagat the healer lives. Bhagat is well-known throughout the region, and people travel hundreds of miles to see him. Bhagat's methods include conversation, rituals and herbal treatments. Joint trance sessions in which spirits talk constitute the core of his methodology. Should a patient fail to enter a trance, Bhagat's assistant Meena takes the spirits into herself and is entranced on behalf of the patient. Bhagat examines the family and orders treatment. general Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). This edition in Hindi with English subtitles. a-ii--- Girls India Social conditions Spiritual healing India India Social conditions 1947- Filles Inde Conditions sociales Guérison par la foi Inde Inde Conditions sociales 1947- Girls Social conditions Social conditions Spiritual healing India Since 1947 fast GN303 BF1623.S63 K87 2000ev Ethnographic video online ; volume 2 1879379 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AVN2;1879379 ALSTP 130227 20241201230745.7 in00005547860 eng