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Spirits in culture, history, and mind / edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1996Description: 282 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415913683
  • 9780415913683
  • 0415913675
  • 9780415913676
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.92
LOC classification:
  • BL477. S66 1996
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gods, Spirits, and History: A Theoretical Perspective -- 2. Continuity and Shape Shifting: Samoan Spirits in Culture History -- 3. They Loved Her Too Much: Interpreting Spirit Possession in Tonga -- 4. Heteroglossic Discourses on Nukulaelae Spirits -- 5. Spirit Encounters on a Polynesian Outlier: Anuta, Solomon Islands -- 6. Speak of the Devils: Discourse and Belief in Spirits on Rotuma -- 7. Local and Foreign Spirits in Kwaio, Solomon Islands -- 8. Apparitions, Orations, and Rings: Experience of Spirits in Dadul -- 9. Spirit Possession in Chuuk -- 10. Cultural and Experiential Aspects of Spirit Beliefs Among the Toraja -- 11. Afterword: Spirits and Their Histories -- References -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 299.92 SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A220348B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gods, Spirits, and History: A Theoretical Perspective -- 2. Continuity and Shape Shifting: Samoan Spirits in Culture History -- 3. They Loved Her Too Much: Interpreting Spirit Possession in Tonga -- 4. Heteroglossic Discourses on Nukulaelae Spirits -- 5. Spirit Encounters on a Polynesian Outlier: Anuta, Solomon Islands -- 6. Speak of the Devils: Discourse and Belief in Spirits on Rotuma -- 7. Local and Foreign Spirits in Kwaio, Solomon Islands -- 8. Apparitions, Orations, and Rings: Experience of Spirits in Dadul -- 9. Spirit Possession in Chuuk -- 10. Cultural and Experiential Aspects of Spirit Beliefs Among the Toraja -- 11. Afterword: Spirits and Their Histories -- References -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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