Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Trance Mediums and New Media 1
6. On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media 25
7. Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term 56
8. Absence and the Mediation of the Audiovisual Unconscious 77
9. New Media and Traveling Spirits: Pentecostals in the Vietnamese Diaspora and the Disaster of the Titanic 100
10. Numinous Dress/Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera 116
11. Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco 137
12. Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India 156
13. Media Transformations: Music, Goddess Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa/India 171
14. Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali 183
15. Spaces of Refusal: Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography 201
16. ‘‘Look with Your Own Eyes!’’: Visualizations of Spirit Mediums and Their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films 221
17. Possession Play: On Cinema, Reenactment, and Trance in the Cologne Tribes 241
18. Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics 264
19. Notes 283
20. Works Cited 317
21. List of Contributors 353
22. Index 357