Spirited things [Texte imprimé] : the work of "possession" in Afro-Atlantic religions / edited by Paul Christopher Johnson

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