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The word "possession" is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things - via slavery - and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped - and continue to shape - the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things - including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph - as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world. -- from back cover.
Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Spirit possession --- Blacks --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Blacks --- Spirit possession. --- Afrokaribischer Kult. --- Besessenheit. --- Religion --- Religion. --- Latin America.
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The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethno-linguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.
Healing --- Traditional medicine --- Cults --- Spirit possession --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Ethnology --- Tumbuka (African people) --- Social life and customs. --- Batumbuka (African people) --- Nyasa (African people) --- Siska (African people) --- Sisya (African people) --- Tambuka (African people) --- Timbuka (African people) --- Tombucas (African people) --- Tonga (Malawi people) --- Tumbuka (African tribe) --- Watumbuka (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Nyasa (Malawian people)
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