Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency Making Religion in Contemporary West Africa
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.05.2026
Verlag
HAU Society Of Ethnographic TheorySeitenzahl
335
Maße (L/B/H)
22.8/15.1/2.2 cm
Gewicht
484 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-914363-19-1
An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency shows through rich ethnographic analysis how Mande people in West Africa resort to multiple ritual practices to address an "episteme of doubt." In the context of armed conflicts and terrorist attacks, climate disruptions, financial crises, and illness, members of "hunter societies," experts who handle certain agentive artifacts, and adepts in a spiritual possession cult deal with a complex past and uncertain future through creative embodied engagement. Formed within and partially against a predominantly Islamic context and the spread of charismatic Christianities, such embodied ways of acting enable these religious specialists to become "virtuous subjects" to change their relations to the world and to themselves. This is an English translation of Corps rituels. La fabrique du religieux en pays mandingue (Mali, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire).
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