Spirit Possession
Modernity, and Power in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ismail H Abdalla, Heike Behrend, Ute Luig |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 401 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/220675 |
| OpenAlex | W2947283721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Linguistics · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · History · Law · Philosophy
Spirit Possession
Sacred Slaves
A Critical Exploration of African Spirituality and Democracy in Africa
An Alternative Approach to Forensic Anthropology
Fundamental social motives and the varieties of religious experience
The Death Throes of Sacrificed Chicken
Creating and Refining Boundaries – Church Splitting Among Pentecostal Vietnamese Migrants in Berlin
Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing
Movable feast of signs
The Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Practice of Charity in Morocco
I am a man of both sides”
Medical anthropology in Europe – quo vadis
The Validity of DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders Categories in South-West Uganda
To Absent Friends
Affective Witnessing in the Courtroom
Discreet Talk about Supernatural Sodomy, Transgressive Gender Performance, and Male Same-Sex Desire in Zanzibar Town
Social Dimensions of Health
From the Alien to the Other
Negotiating Reintegration and Meanings of Space
Geographical versus social displacement
"Visual "Voodoo
Doubting Modernity for Madagascar's Cactus Pastoralists
Of Spirits and Virgins
Lifting the Loincloth
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity
Haunted by ghosts
Hospitality and dispossession in Madagascar
Negotiating Conflict through Music
Introduction
The transformation of identity through possession rituals in popular religion
Possession and exorcism on the margins of Islam
The Spirit's Wish
The figure of the abducted Acholi girl
What is Spirit Possession? Defining, Comparing, and Explaining Two Possession Forms
Catching Power
La féminisation de la coutume
NgomaMemories
Wayward Pastoral Ghosts and Regional Xenophobia in a Northern Madagascar Town
Between the Umbrella and the Elephant
Spirits as Concepts
The Social Relevance of Spirits
Observing Possession
Explaining Distributions of Spirit Concepts and Spirit Possession
Medicalist, Physiological, and Sociological Explanations
Historical and Ethnographic Setting
The Research Community
Introducing Possession
Describing, Interpreting, and Explaining Spirit Possession
Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan
Spirited Choreographies
Stalking the stalker
“Magic” In Contemporary Africa
Understanding slavery in possession rituals
Tales of Cowries, Money, and Slaves
Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850–Present
In Remembrance of Slavery
Witchcraft after modernity
Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
Playing with perspectives
Expansion and Enclosure
An "impossible" transmission
Conceptualizing Spirit Possession
A tale of goddesses, money, and other terribly wonderful things
Reluctant Muslims
Prosperity Gospels and Enchanted Worldviews
The Father as Witch
Wars of the Past and War in the Present
Aids, religious enthusiasm and spiritual insecurity in Africa
Attuning to the webs ofen
The Mind Possessed
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,69 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2022 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |