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Journal articles on the topic "Tamsic personality"

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Annu and Pradeep Kumar. "Role of 'Triguna' personality in the psychological well-being of women." Indian Journal of Health Sexuality and Culture 10, no. 1 (2024): 11–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13762169.

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Abstract The present research studied the relationship between Triguna personality and psychological well-being. Psychological well-being helps in all domains of an individual.A sample of one hundred thirty women participants with ages ranging from 18 years to 64 years wasdrawn to fill the Vedic Personality Inventory and Psychological Well-Being Scale. Measures of psychological well-being are characterized in terms of environmental mastery, autonomy, positive relations, and purpose in life, personal growth, and self-acceptance. Indian Vedic philosophy suggests about Triguna personality which c
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Kumar Yadav, Santosh, Shiv Prakash, and Rajat Kumar Jain. "TRI-GUNAS (SATTVA, RAJAS AND TAMAS) AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 4, no. 1 (2016): 138–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i1.2016.2852.

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Tri-Gunas is considered an important personality factors in the eastern philosophy. Objective of the present study is to find out co-relation between Tri-Gunas factors of personality and risk- taking behavior among undergraduate students. Sample consists of 192 under graduate students (94 male & 98 female) selected by adopting random sampling method. The tools used for the study are Personality Assessment Profile by Dr. UpendraDhar, Dr. SapanaParashar and Dr. Santosh Dhar and Risk taking Questionnaire constructed by Verendra Sinha and P.N. Arora.
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Santosh, Kumar Yadav, Prakash Shiv, and Kumar Jain Rajat. "TRI-GUNAS (SATTVA, RAJAS AND TAMAS) AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS." International Journal of Research – Granthaalayah 4, no. 1 (2017): 138–45. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.848513.

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Tri-Gunas is considered an important personality factors in the eastern philosophy. Objective of the present study is to find out co-relation between Tri-Gunas factors of personality and risk- taking behavior among undergraduate students. Sample consists of 192 under graduate students (94 male & 98 female) selected by adopting random sampling method. The tools used for the study are Personality Assessment Profile by Dr. Upendra Dhar, Dr. Sapana Parashar and Dr. Santosh Dhar and Risk taking Questionnaire constructed by Verendra Sinha and P.N. Arora. Statistical analysis was done by computin
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Singh, Jitendra K., Girishwar Misra, and Boele De Raad. "Personality Structure in the Trait Lexicon of Hindi, a Major Language Spoken in India." European Journal of Personality 27, no. 6 (2013): 605–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.1940.

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The psycho–lexical approach is extended to Hindi, a major language spoken in India. From both the dictionary and from Hindi novels, a huge set of personality descriptors was put together, ultimately reduced to a manageable set of 295 trait terms. Both self and peer ratings were collected on those terms from a sample of 511 participants. Factor analyses (principal components analysis), performed separately on self and on peer ratings, suggested three up to six factors. From a comparison with an ancient but still popular system of personality description, called the triguna, and from a compariso
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Chhetry, Tek Bahadur. "Reading Trigunas in RK Narayan’s “Malgudi Days”." Saptagandaki Journal 14, no. 01 (2023): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sj.v14i01.64317.

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This research paper explores the psychological concerns of the personalities in RK Narayan’s short stories from “Malgudi Days” where his characters of the upper class and patriarchy predominantly possess the Tamasic qualities while the needy as well as low caste people behold both Rajasic and Sattvic ones. The three stories- “Leela’s Friend,” “A Willing Slave”, and “Wife’s Holiday” are purposively chosen from Lawley Road collection to study character personalities in relation to the Trigunas’ abstract meaning explicated in the Bhagavad Gita (Chapters 14-18). The study critically analyzes the c
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Ayushi, Joshi Juhie Tak Dr. Neelam Kalla. "Facets of Personality from the perspective of Ayurveda: A dive into the Indian Knowledge System." International Educational Applied Research Journal 09, no. 05 (2025): 101–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15483613.

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The study of personality has been an area of interest for researchers in the field of management and organizational behaviour for a long time. Worldwide, various theories of personality have been studied and considered to assess the various personalities from an organizational perspective. Foreign researchers and authors develop most of the theories considered. Although personality is a global concept, different nations have different theories on personality. The ancient Indian text of Ayurveda has had different theories of personality for ages, yet it is an unexplored area. Ayurveda is consid
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Girdhar, Shipra, Rajesh Kumar Sharma, and Dinesh Chandra Sharma. "Importance of Triguna in Healthy Lifestyle." International Research Journal of Ayurveda & Yoga 05, no. 01 (2022): 162–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47223/irjay.2022.5124.

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Ayurveda the most ancient science of life, practiced in India for thousands of years based on its own unique fundamental principles such as prevention of disease, maintenance of health and promotion of health. Trayopasthambaconsists of Ahara (food), Nidra (Sleep) and Brahmacarya (good conducts). EachUpasthambahas its own importance in the prevention of disease. Various ancient texts of Yoga, Ayurveda and Puranas talk about the Gunas related to health, behavior and its effect of the personality in different ways.The concept of Gunadates back to Atharvaveda, it was discussed in Bhagawad Gita.The
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Matani, Nisha, Megha Taragi, Mony Singh, et al. "Triguna Traits and Big Five Personality Factors of Medical and Engineering Students." Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services 15, no. 1 (2025): 280–88. https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss-2025.ijiss.15.1.36.

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The purpose of this study was to compare Triguna Traits and Big Five Personality Factors of Medical and Engineering Students. The sample included 200 students; i.e.100 Medical students and 100 Engineering students. Further bifurcation was done based on gender i.e. 50 males and 50 females in each group. The selected sample was between the age range of 20-28 years, studying in medical and engineering colleges. Data was collected from different cities of Gujarat, namely, - Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Bharuch, Gandhinagar and Surat. Scales used for measuring the Triguna Traits & Big Five Personality
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MUTHTHARASI, –. Art Literary Culture Tamil Journal. "பண்டிதர் அ.கி. நாயுடு இயற்றிய தொல்காப்பியர் கண்ட தமிழர் சமுதாயம்". MUTHTHARASI – Art Literary Culture Tamil Journal II, № 2 (2025): 8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14931116.

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The Tamil language, which is a highly classical language, has a rich literary heritage and grammatical limits. Among the books that define the grammatical limits of the Tamil language, the Tolkappiyam is the foremost. Many people have studied this book, composed by Tolkappiyar with the threefold authority of writing, word and meaning, and have made its methods known to the public. Among them, the one who has studied Tolkappiyar extensively and established through his research book, Tolkappiyar Kanda Tamilar society, that the Tamil society is prior to all social systems; unique, is the Coimbato
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Negi, Kavita, Tanushree, and Nandani Chaurasia. "A utility of holistic health in shrimad bhagavad gita and patanjali Yog Sutra: A review." Journal of Preventive Medicine and Holistic Health 9, no. 2 (2023): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.18231/j.jpmhh.2023.013.

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Stress, poor eating, smoking, drinking, drug use, and malnutrition contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle. A harmful lifestyle results in medical issues such as metabolic disorders, joint and bone disorders, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, obesity, and aggression. WHO states, "Health is a complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Recently, a fourth dimension of spiritual health has also been suggested but has failed to define it in a way that distinguishes it from religion. The clarifies coping strategies for a variety of life ci
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Tamsic personality"

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Wohl, Elizabeth C. "Creativity and Affective Traits Across the Life Span: Developmental Influences Among Adolescents and Older Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4279/.

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In recent years, empirical research has consistently supported an association between susceptibility to affective illness and creativity at the level of eminent achievement and at the non-eminent, or "everyday creativity" level. Although this research has provided greater evidence for the existence of this link, it has simultaneously unearthed more questions about how and why such an association exists. The purpose of this research was twofold: first, to provide further analysis of the nature of the relationship between hypomanic traits and creativity by employing a longitudinal study to deter
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LU, HSIN-NAN, and 盧欣男. "The Study on Organizational Commitment, Motivation-Hygiene Factors and Personality for the Teachers of Public Elementary Schools in Tamsui District of New Taipei City." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n6p5th.

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碩士<br>聖約翰科技大學<br>工業工程與管理系碩士在職專班<br>107<br>Having stable teachers is a favorable development for school and students. The purpose of this study is to understand the teachers’ organizational commitment, motivation-hygiene factors and personality in the public elementary schools in Tamsui District in New Taipei City, and to explore the relationship among organizational commitment, motivation-hygiene factors and personality. The methods of this study is based on the literatures reviewing, and then the preparing a questionnaire. Formal questionnaire has revised and completed after pre-test. Data an
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Books on the topic "Tamsic personality"

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1927-, Cuppaiyā Pon̲, Balakumar M, and Central Institute of Indian Languages., eds. Content resources for assessment: Glossary of terms, language, literature, personality : English-Tamil-English. Central Institute of Indian Languages, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Tamsic personality"

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Theodoropoulou, Irene. "Translanguaging the hero online." In Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.9.15the.

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Abstract This interdisciplinary chapter focuses on the digital translanguaging practices of Qatar-based people’s construction of H.H. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the current Emir of Qatar, as a hero during the blockade that was imposed on the country in June 2017 and lasted until January 2021. A translingual and multimodal corpus comprising tweets and songs composed and performed by the super-diverse population of Qatar during the first year of the blockade is analyzed in the context of resemiotization, and in an appraisal framework with a focus on attitude, namely the ways whereby feelings are seen as a system of meanings. The findings suggest that Sheikh Tamim is constructed as a political and moral hero (Allison, Goethals &amp; Kramer 2016: 5) via a bottom up translanguaged praise of his agency and communal focus evident in his political and diplomatic actions. This praise is realized via emotional stance (affect), which translates into the expression of positive feelings pertinent to his personality, such as love, appreciation, gratitude, and ethics (judgment). The latter is related to attitudes toward Sheikh Tamim’s behavior during the blockade (admiration and praise). At the same time, the role of language ecology including translanguaging in the superdiverse (Vertovec 2007) context of Qatar is examined in the construction of the discourse of Sheikh Tamim’s heroism. More specifically, it is argued that, while English is used referentially, in order to refer to Sheikh Tamim’s achievements and character, languages like Standard Arabic, and Arabic dialects, are used in a more personalized way to either address him directly or to represent his thoughts in the form of direct speech. In this sense, the chapter suggests a new take on translanguaged ecologies through their association with attitudes.
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Jayashri Ramnath, Bombay. "Unfurling the Musicality of Children with Autism." In The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Learning and Development in Music. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190927523.013.59.

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Abstract The paper discusses the experience of the author—an Indian Classical music performer and teacher—and her students under the aegis of Hitham Trust, which is located in the Tamil Nadu region of India. The chapter reveals aspects of her journey in discovering and nurturing the musicality of children on the autism spectrum, primarily in the age group eight to seventeen years. In addition, there is evidence of the positive impact that regular musical instruction and engagement has had on the children’s evolving identity and personality. As well as general observations on the development and work of the Trust, three case studies of individual children with autism are reported, each with a history of advanced musical engagement from a very young age.
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Srinivasan, S., R. Vallipriya, and Ajay Kumar Singh. "An Analysis Health and Psychological General Well-Being Among Convicts Central Prison of Tamil Nadu." In Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Its Intersection With Health and Well-Being. IGI Global, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-9755-8.ch001.

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The study emphasizes the health and well-being of convicts in the central prison of Tamil Nadu. The incarcerated population is highly vulnerable and often neglected. There are studies on health and well-being, but there is limited research specific to this region. The significance of the study mainly focuses on health and well-being, specifically on factors such as personal factors, economic factors, health, familial characteristics, psychological general well-being, personality traits and their relationship to psychological general well-being, psychological characteristics, offense-related factors, age and psychological general well-being, leisure time activities before and after imprisonment, marital status and well-being, extraversion and psychological general well-being, and emotional stability. The study utilized a descriptive research design, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. A purposive sampling technique was used, with a total sample size of 173. The study was conducted in various prisons, Central Prisons.
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Sinha, Kanad. "New Text, New Era, New Hero: Vāsudeva Kṛṣṇa and His Svadharma". У From Dāśarājña to Kurukṣetra. Oxford University PressDelhi, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190130695.003.0004.

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Abstract This chapters answers the question why Vāsudeva Kṛṣṇa, a chief of the Vṛṣṇi gaṇasaṃgha, became one of the principal heroes of the Mahābhārata which we have identified as a Later Vedic Kuru itihāsa. The chapter inspects the multiple legends of Kṛṣṇa, scattered in Vedic, Purāṇic, Buddhist, Jaina, Prakrit, Tamil, grammatical, and dramatic texts, to sketch the semi-historical personality of Kṛṣṇa, and highlights – using the Jaina concept of vāsudeva – why Kṛṣṇa was the most appropriate ideologue for the new ideologies propounded by the Mahābhārata, which prioritized a life of desireless action – over both Vedic materialistic ritualism and heterodox renunciation – based on the performance of one’s svadharma determined by svabhāva. In the process, the chapter engages with questions such as whether Kṛṣṇa was a part of the original Mahābhārata, if there were multiple Kṛṣṇas, and whether the Bhagavad Gītā is a later interpolation in the Mahābhārata, and traces the process of Kṛṣṇa’s deification.
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Nabokov, Isabelle. "Fruit From the Dead." In Religion Against the Self. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195113648.003.0009.

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Abstract By now the reader may have gathered that Tamil initiatory and ritual experiences mostly serve to dissociate people from social and personal identities. We have had ample warrant for such an impression. The camis visions of the goddess led them to withdraw from mainstream society and their families. Many of them, in turn, were quick to prescribe “funerals ” of debilitating relationships for their clientele. While the ultimate objective of exorcisms may be seen to reunite “possessed ” women with their husbands, these reconciliations actually entailed suppressing or “beheading ” an inner personality. And while possession by one’s untimely dead does not call for any kind of “removal. ” this is because a more finite separationdeath-has already happened. No wonder it can appear that Tamil religious practices lean toward effecting what Luc de Heusch calls “disjunctions ” (1981). But this is only one side of the Tamil cosmological picture and its mechanisms and motivations. Its other “face ” is expressed through rituals that incorporate participants into a generational sequence and network of forebears, descendants, and relatives. This body of “conjunctive ” rites stands in isomorphic opposition to diagnostic seances, “removals, ” and exorcisms. A mirrored symbolic vocabulary and identical patterning of actions here are employed to forge a continuity of experience and identity instead of the reverse. Yet, at every crucial step the overlaps and repetitions in these ritual processes are consistent with my deeper conclusion that, above all, Tamil religion works to transform the “inner ” self. The difference is that whereas disjunctive practices objectify the “healthy ” person as separated from unrelated others (be they “commanding ” or alien personalities) conjunctive rituals “prescribe ” mingling or even expanding the self into other connected selves. Before entering this new world of ritual transactions, I might set the tone for the chapters to come by recounting one more diagnostic seance by a recruit of the goddess-a seance of some contrast to those we have witnessed before. It was performed by one of those specialists who could “see ” and embody the spirits of her clients’ dead relatives.1 While this female practitioner did not actually carry out the “fruits ” she recommended.
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Nabokov, Isabelle. "Last Rites For Commanding Relationships." In Religion Against the Self. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195113648.003.0005.

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Abstract On a full-moon night in the Tamil month of Mii.ci (February), Nagaji scheduled Laksmi’s “removal ” rite.1 The breeze during my motorscooter ride to his sanctuary east of Gingee was cool and dry. The path was utterly deserted; in the late hours when Nagaji conducted these rituals every one was fast asleep. Nor were these rituals casual spectacles; people without business there avoided them. Only some dogs barked at my silent passage through a succession of villages leading me to the ciimi’s grove. Laksmi and her father were standing motionless with several other visitors around a camp fire. That night two women (including Laksmi) and seven men had arrived together with clusters of immediate relatives. No one talked, but they stared wide-eyed at me, completely bewildered why I would record such an inauspicious even dangerous ritual. But Nagaji, who understood and even exploited my research for his own ends, explained that I was learning how he dealt with enemy sorcerers and their demons. His job was to stop spells, mine was to be an attentive but neutral spectator. His patients nodded in approval. As Nagaji waited for the midnight hour the air of expectation only intensified. That was when the original spells were cast, he once told me. Since Nagaji considered each ritual a counterattack on an opposing sorcerer, he had to strike back at the same time and in like manner. When I pointed out that he had personally not witnessed the evil sorcerer’s ritual, Nagaji explained that the tutelary goddess guided his actions.2 But for this healing, his supernatural assistant was not the goddess Sakti who regularly spoke during his biweekly divining seances, but the goddess Kali-well known throughout Tamilnadu for her bloody battles against demons. Yet when acting as exorcist he did not identify with Ka.Ii but retained his own male, human consciousness and personality.
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Joshi, Ruchi, and Abilash Kasi. "A Study on Character Strengths and Environmental Ethics Among the Youth of Tamil Nadu as Trailblazers of Climate Change Warriors." In The Climate Change Crisis and Its Impact on Mental Health. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3272-6.ch003.

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Climate change is one of the most concerning modern-day issues. The answer to whether industrialization, urbanization, and technical progress have improved our quality of life is susceptible to prejudiced and subjective perspectives, but they have harmed nature can be established with certainty. The study was done among a varied sample of college students in Tamil Nadu, India, and investigated the subtle interaction of socio-demographic characteristics, gender, character traits, and their impact on mental health, moral character, and environmental ethics. The study employs a correlational research design that makes use of self-report measurements such as the Environmental Ethics Scale (EES) and the Global Assessment of Character Strength Scale (GACS). Semi-structured interviews are used to acquire qualitative insights into participants' thoughts on climate change and potential solutions. The findings show a strong relationship between EES and GACS. The findings also emphasize the importance of socio-demographic characteristics including area, family structure, and socioeconomic level in establishing environmental values, underlining the need of taking cultural and economic issues into account when interpreting study findings and devising solutions. Finally, research advances our understanding of the complex relationships between socio-demographic factors, gender, mental health, personality traits, and environmental ethics, emphasizing the need for tailored interventions that take into account the unique needs and characteristics of various subgroups.
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Nabokov, Isabelle. "Beyond Process and Separation." In Religion Against the Self. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195113648.003.0013.

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Abstract Of all the rituals explored in this book, the sacrificial complex of the last chapter is the most violent. It climaxes not with a “funeral ” of past relationships, not with a “beheading “ of a demonic personality, not with a “stamping “ of parental identity on a son’s head, but with a bloody impalement. As we have just seen, such transpiercing is no symbolic enactment, the pig is no mere surrogate victim. The sacrifice is carried through, in all its brutality, upon the sacrificer who dies, if only for a few minutes. What is the rationale for such violent deed? Anthropological Explanations of Sacrifice Very different answers have been given to the question of what motivates human beings to sacrifice an “offering “ to a deity (see surveys by de Heusch 1985; Valeri 1985). One was developed a century ago by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss when they analyzed ancient Vedic and Hebrew rituals of sacrifice (1964). We are already familiar with their main premise, for Christopher Fuller’s analysis of Tamil sacrifice reviewed in the last chapter built from it (1987; 1992). But Hubert and Mauss did not limit sacrifice to a matter of entering into, or terminating. contact with the divine; they discerned other forms of communication as well. Based on ancient Sanskrit texts, Hubert and Mauss’s study was nonetheless context sensitive. They noted. for example, that Vedic animal sacrifices “released an ambiguous force or rather a blind one “ (1964: 34). Such observations led them to reject Edward Tylor’s gift theory (1871) according to which a sacrifice was a business transaction of do ut des ( “I give so that you will give in return “) without subjective investments on the part of givers.
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Nabokov, Isabelle. "Of Women and Demons." In Religion Against the Self. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195113648.003.00006.

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Abstract In this chapter and the next we explore a form of exorcism that, in sharp contrast to the countersorcery ritual, does seek to reintegrate participants with their former identities and milieus. What is peculiar to this ritual process is how it inhibits the kind of idiosyncratic exegeses we have just heard about. Far from enabling endless, private interpretations, it is prescriptive, even “totalizing, ” as Bruce Kapferer also characterizes Sinhalese exorcisms (1983), that is, it enforces a reality in which only one kind of consciousness and subjectivity is possible (1983: 5). The objective of this ritual is to “drive away ” (o.ttutal) demons known as peys. Now these malignant beings have a different ontological personality from that of the sorcery demons we have just met. Those supernaturals had proper names, clear-cut identities, and myths of origin that correlated with the careers and narratives of members of the great Hindu pantheon. But the category of pey that concerns us here represents the spirits of unknown, ordinary human beings who suffered unnatural or untimely deaths. Their inauspicious fates prevented any normative transit into the hereafter and stranded them in this world where they possess, or “catch ” (pi,ti), the living, most conspicuously young married women (also see Caplan 1989),l Throughout India anthropologists have noted the propensity for new brides to be afflicted by the untimely dead.2 Usually this sort of “ghost-possession ” (Freed and Freed 1993) is explained as a safe means for young wives to vent frustrations over their powerless role in their new families (Opler 1958; Freed and Freed 1964; Harper 1963; Kakar 1986; but see Skultans 1987).3 As Christopher Fuller writes, “Women’s possession episodes are ... culturally tolerated opportunities to complain about female inferiority and subordination within Indian society ” (1992: 233). From her research on the Mukkuvars, a Catholic fishing people in the southernmost Tamil district of Kanyakumari, Kalpana Ram also contends that demonic possession enables women to reinterpret “dominant ” symbolic constructs of the female body and sexuality, and to “challenge the daily discipline of living within the confines of respectable femininity ” (1991: 93).
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Conference papers on the topic "Tamsic personality"

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Singh, Jitendra, and Girishwar Misra. "A Psycholexical Study of Personality Trait Structure of Hindi Speaking Indians." In International Association of Cross Cultural Psychology Congress. International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4087/jxjt7641.

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This study adopted a psycholexical approach to uncover the personality trait structure of Hindi speaking Indians. The endorsement for personality descriptive adjectives was obtained from young adults (n=240) using a Likert-type 5-point rating scale. The principal component analysis using varimax rotation revealed a six-factor structure comprised of (I) rajasic (passion and mobility), (II) sattvic (goodness and harmony), (III) tamasic (dullness and inertia), (IV) competence, (V) neuroticism, and (VI) extraversion. The six-factor structure of personality in Hindi language has broader psycholexic
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