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The social life of spirits / edited by Ruy Blanes and Diana Espírito Santo.

Contributor(s): Blanes, Ruy Llera, 1976- | Espirito Santo, Diana
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: vi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226081632 (cloth : alk. paper); 022608163X (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226081779 (pbk. : alk. paper); 022608177X (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Spirits -- Social aspects | Caribbean Area -- Religion | Afro-Brazilian cultsDDC classification: 202/.109729 LOC classification: BL477 | .S65 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-293) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: On the Agency of Intangibles / Diana Espírito Santo and Ruy Blanes -- Intangible Motion: Notes on the Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit / Thomas G. Kirsch -- What the Invisible Looks Like: Ghosts, Perceptual Faith, and Mongolian Regimes of Communication / Grégory Delaplace -- The Materiality of "Spiritual Presences" and the Notion of Person in an Amerindian Society / Florencia C. Tola -- Spirits and Stories in the Crossroads / Vânia Zikàn Cardosa -- Enchanted Entities and Disenchanted Lives along the Amazon Rivers, Brazil / Mark Harris -- Spirit Materialities in Cuban Folk Religion: Realms of Imaginative Possibility / Kristina Wirtz -- João da Mata Family: Pajé Dreams, Chants, and Social Life / Ana Stela de Almeida Cunha -- Amerindian and Priest: An Entity in Brazilian Umbanda / Emerson Giumbelli -- Toward an Epistemology of Imaginal Alterity: Fieldwork with the Dragon / Susan Greenwood -- Historicist Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility / Stephan Palmié.
Holdings
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL477 .S65 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903463822

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-293) and index.

Introduction: On the Agency of Intangibles / Diana Espírito Santo and Ruy Blanes -- Intangible Motion: Notes on the Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit / Thomas G. Kirsch -- What the Invisible Looks Like: Ghosts, Perceptual Faith, and Mongolian Regimes of Communication / Grégory Delaplace -- The Materiality of "Spiritual Presences" and the Notion of Person in an Amerindian Society / Florencia C. Tola -- Spirits and Stories in the Crossroads / Vânia Zikàn Cardosa -- Enchanted Entities and Disenchanted Lives along the Amazon Rivers, Brazil / Mark Harris -- Spirit Materialities in Cuban Folk Religion: Realms of Imaginative Possibility / Kristina Wirtz -- João da Mata Family: Pajé Dreams, Chants, and Social Life / Ana Stela de Almeida Cunha -- Amerindian and Priest: An Entity in Brazilian Umbanda / Emerson Giumbelli -- Toward an Epistemology of Imaginal Alterity: Fieldwork with the Dragon / Susan Greenwood -- Historicist Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility / Stephan Palmié.

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