ISBN:
9780415908764
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (239 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Embodying Colonial Memories : Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa
DDC:
306.6/9965
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock ""Europeans"" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated into a spirit possession troupe, recounts an insider's tale of the Hauka with respect and ""brotherly"" deference. He combines narrative description, historical a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue Diplomacy on a Dune; I Sensing Spirit Possession; Introduction Sensing Ethnography; Chapter 1 Spirit Possession; Chapter 2 Cultural Memory; Chapter 3 Embodied Memories: Mimesis and Spirit Possession; II Confronting Colonialism in West Africa; Introduction Forms of Confrontation; Chapter 4 From First Contacts to Military Partition; Chapter 5 Colonizing West Africa; Chapter 6 Embodied Oppositions; III Migrating with the Hauka; Introduction Thunderous Gods; Chapter 7 Colonizing Niger
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 The Birth of the Hauka MovementChapter 9 Transgressing to the Gold Coast; IV Transforming State Power: The Hauka Movement in the Postcolony of Niger; Introduction Crossing Ceremonial Boundaries; Chapter 10 Independence and the Postcolony of Niger; Chapter 11 Peasant and Hauka in Niger's Postcolony; Chapter 12 The Hauka and the Government of General Seyni Kountche; Epilogue Memory, Power, and Spirit Possession; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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