Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions Collins Educational he lived by these guiding

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Discusses the role of Afro-Cuban in Cuban history and culture and the role of libraries in the context of the Cuban revolution"--

ISBN: 9781530628

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Urban Books (June 30

Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions Collins Educational he lived by these guidingThe word possession is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into thingsvia slaveryand ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in