by Diana Espírito Santo (Editor), Ruy Blanes (Editor)
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. This book challenges this notion.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 312
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 22 Nov 2013
ISBN 10: 022608177X
ISBN 13: 9780226081779