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Where humans and spirits meet : the politics of rituals and identified spirits in Zanzibar /
Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits;...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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| Colección: | Social identities ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits; it provides a way to apprehend how society is constituted and conceived and, thus, discusses Zanzibari understandings of what it means to be human. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857450562 0857450565 1282626957 9781282626959 9786612626951 661262695X |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |