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Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger Book

Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger
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  • Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger
  • Written by author Adeline Masquelier
  • Published by Duke University Press Books, January 2001
  • An ethnographic and historical account of bori spirit possession and its relation to Islam, colonialism, and the state.
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Introduction1
1Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi7
2Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions49
3Socializing the Spirits77
4The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice120
5Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Baboule Spirits and the Making of Value159
6Taking Hold of the Kasuwa: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market192
7The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption227
8Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain262
Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori291
Notes301
Bibliography321
Index341


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