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Author:   Diana Espirito Santo ,  Nico Tassi
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.475kg
ISBN:  

9781848857964

ISBN 10:   1848857969
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 July 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction / Nico Tassi & Diana Espirito Santo I. SPIRITS IN THE MAKING Chapter 2. Materiality, cosmogony and presence among Cuban spirits and mediums / Diana Espirito Santo Chapter 3. Conchas, candles and flowers in the creation of the Concheros' religiosity / Susanna Rostas Chapter 4. We worship nature : The given and the made in Brazilian Candomble / Roger Sansi II. TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 5. Knowing what has been done: technology of ritual 'objects' amongst the Abelam (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) / Ludovic Coupaye Chapter 6. Objects, Bodies and Gods: analysis of an ontological process in the Xango Cult in Recife (Brazil) / Arnaud Halloy Chapter 7. Divinity and experiment: conversion in a Japanese jam jar / Phil Swift III. MATTER AND SPIRITUAL POWER Chapter 8. Forms of fetishism in Kinshasa: historical insights and contemporary practices / Joe Trapido Chapter 9. Things we grow with: spirits, matter and bodies in La Paz, Bolivia / Nico Tassi Chapter 10. Making Matter Matter: The Santo Daime Ritual of Feitio / Andrew Dawson Chapter 11. Concluding remarks and discussion / Martin Holbraad

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This volume is a must-read for all students of religion and of anthropology for two different and complementary reasons. On the hand, the editors bring together two anthropological traditions, in an extremely relevant way for religionists: the tradition around ""material culture"" studies, and the tradition which looks towards a major rethinking of the relationships between human subjects and their surrounding material and spiritual worlds. Furthermore, the book is useful because of the ethnographic richness of each chapter, which grounds the theoretical debates in people's everyday lives, covering an amazing scope of cross-cultural settings and situations.' - Dr Ramon Sarro, Lecturer in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

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Diana Espirito Santo is currently a research fellow in social anthropology based at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CRIA, FCSH-UNL). She works between Cuba and Brazil on themes of learning and cognition, personhood, materiality and cosmology in spirit mediumship practices. Nico Tassi is a research associate of the Programa de Ivestigacion Estrategica en Bolivia (PIEB) and visiting scholar at University College London. He has dedicated most of his academic work to the study of Bolivia's indigenous highlanders, focusing on religion and political economy, materiality and transcendence, trade and informality.

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