Spirits in culture, history, and mind / edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1996Description: 282 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415913683
- 9780415913683
- 0415913675
- 9780415913676
- 299.92
- BL477. S66 1996
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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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