Spirit possession : modernity and power in Africa.
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التنسيق: | Ouvrage |
اللغة: | Anglais |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
1999.
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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.