The hammer and the flute :: women, power, and spirit possession /

"The possession of the body - particularly the body of a woman - by spirits, deities, and ancestors is a phenomenon common to a number of religions. Ethnographers have often studied cases of spirit possession to decode a society's cultural values and belief systems. In The Hammer and the F...

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1. Verfasser: Keller, Mary, 1964-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Zusammenfassung:"The possession of the body - particularly the body of a woman - by spirits, deities, and ancestors is a phenomenon common to a number of religions. Ethnographers have often studied cases of spirit possession to decode a society's cultural values and belief systems. In The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession, however, Mary Keller approaches the spirit possession of women as a historian of religion informed by postcolonial theory and feminist philosophy, challenging the prevalent interpretation that possessed women are victims of psychological disturbance or are actively manipulating their audiences. Proposing a new theoretical framework, "instrumental agency," Keller offers a far more nuanced portrait of spirit possession as a negotiation with multiple kinds of power which requires a radical receptivity on the part of the possessed persons and as a reorientation of scholarship."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
ISBN:0801876281
9780801876288
0801867878
9780801867873