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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Keller, Mary, 1964-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Signifying possession
  • Re-orienting possession
  • Flutes, hammers, and mounted women
  • Work
  • War
  • Play(s).