Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa by Paul Stoller

Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa

Paul Stoller

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A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial ...

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