Spirit Possession and Personhood Among the Kel Ewey Tuareg

ISBN-13: 9780521025775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 196 str.

Susan J. Rasmussen; Meyer Fortes; Edmund Leach

Opis

Tuareg women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude', from which they are released by an evening ritual. Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession.