The Social Life of Spirits by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espirito Santo

The Social Life of Spirits

Ruy Blanes, Diana Espirito Santo

312 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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 w...

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