Where Humans and Spirits Meet
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Where Humans and Spirits Meet

The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Where Humans and Spirits Meet

The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar

About this book

Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits; it provides a way to apprehend how society is constituted and conceived and, thus, discusses Zanzibari understandings of what it means to be human.

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Information

Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781845450557
eBook ISBN
9780857450562

Table of contents

  1. Title page-Where Humans and Spirits Meet
  2. Contents
  3. Preface and Acknowledgements
  4. CH 1-Introduction
  5. CH 2-Introduction to Zanzibar
  6. CH 3-Spirits, possession and personhood
  7. CH 4-MAkabila, people and spirits
  8. CH 5-Human concerns, spirits and recreation of relationships
  9. CH 6-Between self and other
  10. CH 7-Gender
  11. CH 8-Women, men and gendered spirits
  12. CH 9-Conclusions
  13. Glossary
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index