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ISBN: 9781530628
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But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss
Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions Collins Educational ISBN: 9781530628The 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 thingsvia slaveryand ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in
