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Spirit possession --- Possession par les esprits --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion)

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Songhai (African people) --- Spirit possession --- Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Possession par les esprits --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- -Songhay (African people) --- Songhoi (African people) --- Songhoy (African people) --- Songoi (African people) --- Sonrai (African people) --- Ethnology --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- -Etnografie: Afrika --- Songhaï (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Songhay (African people) --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion)

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Islam --- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam). --- Spirit possession --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Possession par les esprits --- Mayotte --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Islamic epistemology --- Islamic philosophy --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Mayotta Island --- Maote --- Ile Mayotte --- Mayotta --- Collectivité territoriale de Mayotte --- Social life and customs.

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"This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural community demonstrates that spirit possession reflects in microcosm many of the contradictions of daily life in a plantation economy. Female spirit mediums - a group heretofore assumed to be marginal - are in fact powerful and honored healers who assist their clients, the peasants and migrant laborers of Madagascar's Sambirano Valley. Lesley Sharp's wide-ranging analysis shows how spirit possession, identity, and power are intrinsically linked." "Possession by royal ancestral or tromba spirits is central to the concept of identity in Ambanja, the urban center of the Sambirano Valley. In this town there is an intense competition between insiders and outsiders. The insiders are primarily the indigenous Bemazava-Sakalava, the tera-tany or "children of the soil"; the outsiders are vahiny or "guests," labor migrants come to seek their fortunes. Yet these categories are fluid. Active participation in tromba possession confirms tera-tany status; thus migrant women who become mediums may transform their identities, becoming insiders. This action affects their daily survival, since tera-tany status confers access to arable land and local power structures." "Tromba possession also yields deeper meanings that emerge from the local knowledge of female mediums. These varied meanings are reflected in the performative aspects of healing ceremonies and are articulated through the gestures of the human body. As Sharp shows, healers' words and deeds reveal major sources of affliction, ranging from romance to urbanization and capitalist labor relations. Furthermore, spirit mediums are actively engaged in the reconstruction of indigenous history. Finally, the most powerful mediums draw on symbolic knowledge to influence the thrust of economic development in the Sambirano Valley." "Sharp concludes this study with an analysis of how indigenous spirit mediums and Protestant exorcists treat extreme cases of possession and madness, revealing contradictions inherent in cross-cultural psychiatric praxis. More generally, the book challenges current views about possession and marginal status, particularly in reference to gender and age, insightful discussions of the lives of migrant adults and children as they seek relief. Some personal and social ills make Sharp's investigation relevant to gender studies, medical anthropology religion and ritual, and the politics of culture as well as African and Madagascar studies."--Jacket.

Sakalava (Malagasy people) --- Spirit possession --- Ancestor worship --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- History & Archaeology --- Sakalavas --- Ethnology --- Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Religion --- Social conditions --- Religious aspects --- Ambanja (Madagascar) --- Religious life and customs. --- Sakalava (Peuple de Madagascar) --- Possession par les esprits --- Morts --- Rites et cérémonies --- Conditions sociales --- Culte --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse et coutumes

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Power (Social sciences) --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Africa, Central --- Kings and rulers --- Religion --- Christianity --- Superstition --- Spirit possession --- Religion and social problems --- Magic --- Fetishism --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Fetishism. --- Magic. --- Religion and social problems. --- Christianity. --- Folk beliefs --- Traditions --- Folklore --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Social action --- Social problems and religion --- Social problems --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Fetichism --- Rites and ceremonies --- Worship --- Church history --- Social aspects&delete& --- Religious aspects --- Religion - Social aspects - Africa, Central --- Religion - Social aspects - Congo (Brazzaville) --- Religion - Social aspects - Gabon --- Christianity - Africa, Central --- Superstition - Social aspects - Christianity --- Spirit possession - Africa, Central