Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger by Paul Stoller

Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger

Paul Stoller

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This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.--Choice Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediat...

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