Suspect Others : Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname /

Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals ritual revelation generates self-knowledge in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strange, Stuart Earle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Colección:Anthropological Horizons
Temas:
Channeling (Spiritualism) > Social aspects > Suriname.
Mediums > Suriname.
Self-perception > Suriname.
Suspicion > Suriname.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
African Atlantic.
Caribbean.
Hinduism.
South Asian diaspora.
Spirit Possession.
Suriname.
interaction.
race.
ritual.
self-knowledge.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Settlement and Self-Doubt
  • 2 A Fragmented Unity: Hindu Selves, Doubt, and Shakti Ritual
  • 3 Mediated Selves: Ndyuka Knowledge, Suspicion, and Revelation
  • 4 Painful Interactions
  • 5 Dreams at the Limits of Knowledge
  • 6 The Revealing Ironies of Racecraft
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Anthropological Horizons

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