Prayer Has Spoiled Everything - Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger

"With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, "Prayer Has Spoiled Everything" will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types."--Karen McCarthy Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn"

Sommario

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Terms

Introduction

1. Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi

2. Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions

3. Socializing the Spirit

4. The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice

5. Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Babou Spirits and the Making of Value

6. Taking Hold of the Kasuwa; The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market

7. The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption

8. Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain

Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Adeline Masquelier

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Adeline Masquelier, MASQUELIER, Adeline Masquelier
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.03.2001
• EAN: 9780822326397
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2639-7
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 653 g
• Serie: Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Anthropologie, Islam, Niger, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, Regionalstudien