Bakuu
Possesing Spirits of Witchcraft on the Tapanahony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4223809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Vernon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-38 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1382-2373 • E-ISSN: 2213-4360 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134360-90002127 |
| OpenAlex | W2081920950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper (1) is a repon on one pantheon of possessing spirits known as &^a (2), which was in full expansion among the Djuka of Tabiki on the Tapanahony river, Suriname, in the period when 1 visited them between December 1976 and February 1978 (3). While even my oldest informants denied ever having seen il;uu mediums in that village before (and I was unable to find any &uu spirit that had possessed a medium longer than 3 years) the flju phenomenon was then being experienced as visions in the night, as interpretation of illness and death, as witch accusation, and as spirit possession. One example of & social drama is recounted below, and an attempt is made to situate the & in relation to other pantheons of possessing spirits. All generalizations attempted here should be understood to be premature, and to apply only to one village, observed at a moment when it was mobilized by what it considered its first case of i&ft&uu possession and accusation
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · False accusation · Genealogy · Phenomenon · Political science · Theology · Vision · Witch · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
Transversal multiverses
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Through Maroon worlds
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Vulnerabilidades compartilhadas
Law at the Village Level
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The origins of the gaan gadu movement of the bush negroes of surinam
Avenging spirits and the structure of Saramaka lineages
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Classificatory Kinship and Classificatory Status
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |