Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice)

Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice)

by Adeline Masquelier (Author)

Synopsis

An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam, colonialism, and the state

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01 Apr 2001

ISBN 10: 0822326396
ISBN 13: 9780822326397