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9780822326397

Prayer Has Spoiled Everything

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822326397

  • ISBN10:

    0822326396

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, "Prayer Has Spoiled Everything" will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types."--Karen McCarthy Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn"

Author Biography

Adeline Masquelier is Associate Professor in the department of anthropology at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Terms
xvii
Introduction 1(6)
Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi
7(42)
Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions
49(28)
Socializing the Spirits
77(43)
The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice
120(39)
Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Baboule Spirits and the Making of Value
159(33)
Taking Hold of the Kasuwa: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market
192(35)
The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption
227(35)
Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain
262(29)
Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori 291(10)
Notes 301(20)
Bibliography 321(20)
Index 341

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