Spirited Things
The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
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PAUL CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
INTRODUCTION / Spirits and Things in the Making of the Afro-Atlantic World
PAUL CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
ONE / Toward an Atlantic Genealogy of “Spirit Possession”
STEPHAN PALMIÉ
TWO / 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
THREE / “Who’s Dat Knocking at the Door?” A Tragicomic Ethiopian Spirit Delineation in Three Parts
KRISTINA WIRTZ
FOUR / Spiritual Agency, Materiality, and Knowledge in Cuba
BRIAN BRAZEAL
FIVE / The Fetish and the Stone: A Moral Economy of Charlatans and Thieves
STEPHEN SELKA
SIX / Demons and Money: Possessions in Brazilian Pentecostalism
ELIZABETH McALISTER
SEVEN / Possessing the Land for Jesus
KAREN RICHMAN
EIGHT / Possession and Attachment: Notes on Moral Ritual Communication among Haitian Descent Groups
RAQUEL ROMBERG
NINE / Mimetic Corporeality, Discourse, and Indeterminacy in Spirit Possession
MICHAEL LAMBEK
TEN / Afterword: Recognizing and Misrecognizing Spirit Possession
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
History: General History
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