TEN. Afterword: Recognizing and Misrecognizing Spirit Possession

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Spirits and Things in the Making of the Afro-Atlantic World 1
4. ONE. Toward an Atlantic Genealogy of “Spirit Possession” 23
5. 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 47
6. THREE. “Who’s Dat Knocking at the Door?” A Tragicomic Ethiopian Spirit Delineation in Three Parts 79
7. FOUR. Spiritual Agency, Materiality, and Knowledge in Cuba 99
8. FIVE. The Fetish and the Stone: A Moral Economy of Charlatans and Thieves 131
9. SIX. Demons and Money: Possessions in Brazilian Pentecostalism 155
10. SEVEN. Possessing the Land for Jesus 177
11. EIGHT. Possession and Attachment: Notes on Moral Ritual Communication among Haitian Descent Groups 207
12. NINE. Mimetic Corporeality, Discourse, and Indeterminacy in Spirit Possession 225
13. TEN. Afterword: Recognizing and Misrecognizing Spirit Possession 257
14. Notes 277
15. Bibliography 303
16. Contributors 331
17. Index 333