Stambeli : music, trance, and alterity in Tunisia / Richard C. Jankowsky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Histories and geographies of encounter -- Encountering the other people: alterity, possession, ethnography -- Displacement and emplacement: the trans-saharan slave trade and the emergence of sṭambēlī -- Black spirits, white saints: geographies of encounter in the sṭambēlī pantheon -- Musical aesthetics and ritual dynamics -- Voices of ritual authority: musicians, instruments, and vocality -- Sounding the spirits: the ritual dynamics of temporality, modality, and sonic density -- Trance, healing, and the bodily experience: from individual affliction to collective appeasement -- Movements and trajectories -- Pilgrimage and place: local performances, transnational imaginaries -- Sṭambēlī on stage: (re)presentations, musical cosmopolitanism, and the public sphere -- Conclusion: music, trance, and alterity -- Epilogue (with notes on audio examples).