The Familial Occult : Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography / edited by Alexandra Co?ofana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Co?ofana, Alexandra, author.

Series:

EASA monographs ; Volume 47.

EASA Series ; Volume 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, [2024]

Summary:

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction - "How Does That Make You Feel?" Writing about the Familial Occult as Therapy

Chapter 1 - A Chinese American Religious Healer: Toward Filial Ethnography

Chapter 2 - I Am My Mother's Son: Revelations of the Divine

Chapter 3 - Of Bibles and Broads: The Familial Occult as Academic Lens

Chapter 4 - Facing My Genies: A Commute between Self, Familial Spirits, and Anthropology

Chapter 5 - On Familial Occultism

Chapter 6 - The Familial Occult in Yakutia: Changeling Children and Tricking Demons

Chapter 7 - Can Ethnography of the Occult Be Transformed into Occult Ethnography? Contextualizing a Local Religious Practice in Abkhazia

Chapter 8 - "My Father Was a Reader": Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern Sweden

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80539-176-3

OCLC:

1402815027