Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Diana Espirito Santo
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Beyond Tradition, Beyond Invention
Offering an alternative to cult-centred accounts, this book looks at the relationships between Afro-Cuban traditions and indeed goes beyond 'traditions' to place the focus on …
Making Spirits
The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world. Through the ethnographic analysis of …
Articulate Necrographies
Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. …
Spirited Histories
Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and …
Other Worlds, Other Bodies
When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of "e;other"e; worlds that may …
Articulate Necrographies
Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. …
UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological ‘absurd’, nonsensical instances …
Developing the Dead
Despite its powerful influence on Cuban culture, Espiritismo has often been overlooked by scholars. Developing the Dead is the first in-depth exploration of contemporary …
Mattering the Invisible
Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles …
The Social Life of Spirits
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else - …
The Dynamic Cosmos
This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different locations around the world. The 10 …
Developing the Dead
Studying the relationships cultivated by mediums between the living and the dead.Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the …