Spirited things : the work of "possession" in Afro-Atlantic religions /
Johnson, Paul C.(Paul Christopher),1964-editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Spirits and things in the making of the Afro-Atlantic world / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Toward an Atlantic genealogy of "spirit possession" / Paul Christopher Johnson -- 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 / Stephan Palmié -- "Who's dat knocking at the door?" : a tragicomic Ethiopian spirit delineation in three parts / Patrick A. Polk -- Spiritual agency, materiality, and knowledge in Cuba / Kristina Wirtz -- The fetish and the stone : a moral economy of charlatans and thieves / Brian Brazeal -- Demons and money : possessions in Brazilian Pentecostalism / Stephen Selka -- Possessing the land for Jesus / Elizabeth McAlister -- Possession and attachment : notes on moral ritual communication among Haitian descent groups / Karen Richman -- Mimetic corporeality, discourse, and indeterminacy in spirit possession / Raquel Romberg -- Afterword : Recognizing and misrecognizing spirit possession / Michael Lambek.
Afro-Caribbean cults.
Spirit possession
Blacks