جدول المحتويات:
  • Part I : Spirit Possession and Modernity
  • 1. The Power of Possession in Northwest Madagascar
  • 2. Power to Heal, Power to Kill
  • 3. The Invention of Anti-Tradition
  • Part II : Complexities and Proliferation of Spirit Possession
  • 4. On History and Language of the "European" Bori Spirits
  • 5. Horse, Hunter and Messenger
  • Part III : Spirit Possession and Gender
  • 6. Defunct Women
  • 7. The Case of the Butcher's Wife
  • Part IV : Spirit Possession as Performative Ethnography and History "from below"
  • 8. Slavery, Spirit, Possession and Ritual Consciousness
  • 9. Constructing Local Worlds
  • 10. Spirit Possession and the Symbolic Construction of Swahili Society.