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The hammer and the flute : women, power, and spirit possession /
"The possession of the body - particularly the body of a woman - by spirits, deities, and ancestors is a phenomenon common to a number of religions. Ethnographers have often studied cases of spirit possession to decode a society's cultural values and belief systems. In The Hammer and the F...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The possession of the body - particularly the body of a woman - by spirits, deities, and ancestors is a phenomenon common to a number of religions. Ethnographers have often studied cases of spirit possession to decode a society's cultural values and belief systems. In The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession, however, Mary Keller approaches the spirit possession of women as a historian of religion informed by postcolonial theory and feminist philosophy, challenging the prevalent interpretation that possessed women are victims of psychological disturbance or are actively manipulating their audiences. Proposing a new theoretical framework, "instrumental agency," Keller offers a far more nuanced portrait of spirit possession as a negotiation with multiple kinds of power which requires a radical receptivity on the part of the possessed persons and as a reorientation of scholarship."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801876281 9780801876288 0801867878 9780801867873 |