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Prayer has spoiled everything : possession, power, and identity in an Islamic town of Niger / Adeline Masquelier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Body, commodity, text.
- Body, commodity, text
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mawri (African people)--Niger--Dogondoutchi--Religion.
- Mawri (African people).
- Bori (Cult)--Niger--Dogondoutchi.
- Bori (Cult).
- Dogondoutchi (Niger)--Religion.
- Dogondoutchi (Niger).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam, colonialism, and the state.
- Contents:
- Bori, power, and identity in Dogondoutchi
- Lost rituals : changing topographies of spirit/human interactions
- Socializing the spirits
- The everyday life of bori : knowledge, embodiment, and quotidian practice
- Kinesthetic appropriation and embodied knowledge : Baboule spirits and the making of value
- Taking hold of the kasuwa : the ritual economy of bori in the market
- The mirrors of Maria : sweetness, sexuality, and dangerous consumption
- Lightning, death, and the politics of truth : the spirits of rain.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903489
- 9781282903487
- 1282903489
- 9780822380559
- 0822380552
- OCLC:
- 850212761
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