Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (Body, commodity, text) (English Edition).
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (Body, commodity, text) (English Edition)
by Adeline Masquelier
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Project MUSE Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession PreIslamic communal rituals are disappearing resulting in a sense of loss by spirit devotees in the wake of Islams progressive erasure of the moral geography in which nonMuslim Mawri traditionally anchored their history and identity p 4 Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Historically spirit possession studies have been characterized by an emphasis on spirits as representations of psychological social political aesthetic or historical processes Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger Body Commodity Text Adeline Masquelier on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Bori in the Mawri society of Niger are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush Bori is also the practice of taming these wild forces in Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger By Adeline Masquelier Adeline Masquelier Adeline Maquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University Search for other works by this author on This Site Google Duke University Press Prayer has spoiled everything possession power and Prayer has spoiled everything possession power and identity in an Islamic town of Niger Adeline Marie Masquelier An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam colonialism and the state Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Noté 505 Retrouvez Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger et des millions de livres en stock sur Achetez neuf ou doccasion Duke University Press Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger Share Book Pages 368 Illustrations 25 bw photographs 2 maps Published March 2001 Author Adeline Masquelier Subjects African Studies Anthropology Cultural Anthropology Religious Studies Bori in the Mawri society of Niger are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush Bori is Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Possession Power and American Anthropologist American Ethnologist Annals of Anthropological Practice Anthropology Education Quarterly Anthropology Humanism Anthropology News Adeline Masquelier Wikipedia Adeline Marie Masquelier born 1960 is a Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana She received her from the University of Chicago in 1993 studying under the prominent Africanist and Anthropologist Jean Comaroff and has done her field work among the people of rural Niger in the Hausa town of Dogondoutchi Prayer Has Spoiled Everything eBook by Adeline Masquelier By focusing on some of the creative and complex ways that bori at once competes with and borrows from Islam Masquelier reveals how possession nonetheless remains deeply embedded in Mawri culture representing more than simple resistance to Islam patriarchy or the state Despite a widening gap between former ways of life and the contradictions of the present it maintains its place as a feature of daily life in which villagers participate with varying degrees of enthusiasm and approval
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (Body, commodity, text) (English Edition) Adeline Masquelier Télécharger Livres Gratuits
