The Work Of Possession(s)

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ID9286294
AuthorsPaul Christopher Johnson (0000-0002-7048-2389), Mary Keller (State Street (United States), corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume7
Issue2
Pages111-122
Publication date2006-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture and Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-5610 • E-ISSN: 1475-5629
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14755610600975837
OpenAlexW2025626246
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

We are delighted to introduce these papers under the rubric of ‘The Work of Possessions’, which names a fault line where two tectonic plates of twenty-first-century thought collide. Identifying two major meanings for the word possession in the English language—on the one hand an owned, held or otherwise controlled item, and on the other hand the overcoming of a person by a spirit; on the one hand the work of ‘possessions’ in capital acquisition, and on the other hand the work of ‘possession’ as a model of subjectivity in which humans are perceived to be dialectically spoken-through as well as speaking—we propose that the two vectors collide and overlap. The two issues bear on one another, although the idea that they do, and the empirical ways in which this occurs, have rarely been studied. The papers are introduced with reference to significant threads raised by their respective analyses and with critical reference to our own concerns in the study of possessions that motivated this special issue

Epistemology · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Possession (linguistics · Rubric · Shame · Sociology · Subjectivity · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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