This groundbreaking collection of essays by a group of cutting-edge scholars of religions of the Black Atlantic explores both the genealogy of spirit possession and the theories of political economy and governance from which it emerged, and the empirical production of spirit possession practices. Johnson s introductory chapter, which traces the rise of the idea of possession in the commercial and political encounters between Europeans and Africans, is followed by eight ethnographic chapters on Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Puerto ...
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This groundbreaking collection of essays by a group of cutting-edge scholars of religions of the Black Atlantic explores both the genealogy of spirit possession and the theories of political economy and governance from which it emerged, and the empirical production of spirit possession practices. Johnson s introductory chapter, which traces the rise of the idea of possession in the commercial and political encounters between Europeans and Africans, is followed by eight ethnographic chapters on Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and North America. These chapters explore the ritual production of mediated spirits in a context framed not only by specific things for example, the plantation, the Catholic church, the sea, 19th century theater, gemstone mining, land called heritaj, the telegraph, the phonograph, the languages of European masters, the Pentecostal church, the senses of the human body, and so onbut also by the context of slavery, which transformed persons into things."
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Add this copy of Spirited Things: the Work of "Possession" in Afro to cart. $24.58, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by University of Chicago Press.
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New. The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. This book features essays by anthropologists in the Americas to explore the nexus found at the heart of the idea of being possessed. Editor(s): Johnson, Paul Christopher. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1H; HRK; HRLK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504. 2014. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
