Spirit possession, modernity and power in Africa
By: Heike Behrend, Ute Luig
Contributors: Behrend, Heike; Luig, Ute
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Madison, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Spirit possession -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Cults -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: Power of possession in northwest Madagascar: contesting colonial and national hegemonies / Lesley A. Sharp; Power to heal, power to kill: spirit possession and war in northern Uganda (1986-1994) / Heike Behrend; Invention of anti-tradition: dodo spirits in southern Niger / Adeline Masquelier; On history and language of the 'European' Bori spirits of Kano, Nigeria / Matthias Krings; Horse, hunter and messenger: the possessed men of the Nya cult in Mali / Jean-Paul Colleyn; Defunct women: possession among the Bijagós islanders / Alexandra O. de Sousa; The case of the butcher's wife: illness, possession and power in central Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon; Slavery, spirit possession and ritual consciousness: the Tchamba cult among the Mina in Togo / Tobias Wendl; Constructing local worlds: spirit possession in the Gwembe Valley, Zambia / Ute Luig; Spirit possession and the symbolic construction of Swahili society / Linda L. Giles