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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
May 7, 2014
Pages
344
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226122625
ISBN-10
022612262X
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.32 lbs.
Original list price
$97.50
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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The word Âpossessionâ 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 thingsÂvia slaveryÂand 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 shapedÂand continue to shapeÂthe cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material thingsÂincluding plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonographÂas well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.Â
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Hardcover
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 7, 2014)
9780226122625 | details & prices | 344 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.32 lbs | List price $97.50
About: The word Âpossessionâ is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas.
About: The word Âpossessionâ is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas.
Paperback
from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 7, 2014)
9780226122762 | details & prices | 344 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.06 lbs | List price $32.50
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