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Spirit Possession, Modernity & Power in Africa
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Pages: 198
Authors: Heike Behrend
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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In Africa as well as in Europe, many spirits and their mediums are part of local as well as global cultures. Christian spirits named Hitler, Mussolini, or King
Spirit Possession, Modernity & Power in Africa
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Heike Behrend
Categories: Cults
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Focuses on questions of power, the history and inner dynamics of cults, and images of the other.
Spirit Possession
Language: en
Pages: 556
Authors: Éva Pócs
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-31 - Publisher: Central European University Press

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Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personho
Fusion of the Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Paul Stoller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-07-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."—Choic
Remains of Ritual
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Steven M. Friedson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Fried