Spirited things the work of "possession" in Afro-Atlantic religions /

Spirited things the work of "possession" in Afro-Atlantic religions / [Texte imprimé] : edited by Paul Christopher Johnson - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, cop. 2014 - 1 vol. (XIV-312 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm

Bibliogr. p. [303]-329

Introduction: spirits and things in the making of the Afro-Atlantic world / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Toward an Atlantic genealogy of "spirit possession" / Stephan Palmié -- The Ejamba of North Fairmount Avenue, the wizard of Menlo Park, and the dialectics of ensoniment: an episode in the history of an acoustic mask / Patrick A. Polk -- "Who's dat knocking at the door?" : a tragicomic Ethiopian spirit delineation in parts / Kristina Wirtz-- Spiritual agency, materiality, and knowledge in Cuba / Brian Brazeal -- The fetish and the stone: a moral economy of charlatans and thieves / Stephen Selka -- Demons and money: possessions in Brazilian pentecostalism / Elizabeth McAlister -- Possessing the land for Jesus / Karen Richman -- Possession and attachment: notes on moral ritual communication among Haitian descent groups / Raquel Romberg -- Mimetic corporeality, discourse, and indeterminacy in spirit possession / Michael Lambek -- Afterword: recognizing and misrecognizing spirit possession

978-0-226-12262-5

Afro-Caribbean cults Spirit possession--Latin America Blacks--Latin America--Religion

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