Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa
Stoller, Paul
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Hardback
288 pages
24 Illustrations
Published: 1995
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN / EAN: 0415908760
This is a study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. It uses the example of the Hauka to think creatively about spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social, cultural
