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
299.6898
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
299.6898