Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic ReligionsThe 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

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but neglected component of Africa’s complicated and intractable wars: the militarization of governance

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and the people who have the will to do so

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910593660

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these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful