The Possessed And The Dispossessed
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The Possessed And The Dispossessed
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Author : Lesley A. Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
The Possessed And The Dispossessed written by Lesley A. Sharp and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Social Science categories.
This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this plantation economy. In fact, Sharp's wide-ranging analysis shows that tromba, or spirit possession, is central to understanding the complex identities of insiders and outsiders in this community, which draws people from all over the island and abroad. Sharp's study also reveals the contradictions between indigenous healing and Western-derived Protestant healing and psychiatry. Particular attention to the significance of migrant women's and children's experiences in a context of seeking relief from personal and social ills gives Sharp's investigation importance for gender studies as well as for studies in medical anthropology, Africa and Madagascar, the politics of culture, and religion and ritual. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
The Possessed And The Dispossessed
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Author : Lesley Alexandra Sharp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Possessed And The Dispossessed written by Lesley Alexandra Sharp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Ambanja (Madagascar) categories.
The New Utopian Politics Of Ursula K Le Guin S The Dispossessed
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Author : Laurence Davis
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005
The New Utopian Politics Of Ursula K Le Guin S The Dispossessed written by Laurence Davis and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
Description of the seductions - and snares - of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society. This title, an edited collection of original essays on "Le Guin's The Dispossessed", represents an exploration of the political ramifications of this work by a wide interdisciplinary swath of scholars from around the world.
The Dispossessed The Never Possessed And The Bastards
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Author : Luke Stanley
language : en
Publisher: 216 Linen Hall
Release Date : 2014-09-18
The Dispossessed The Never Possessed And The Bastards written by Luke Stanley and has been published by 216 Linen Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Political Science categories.
Dispossession
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Author : Marlene Goldman
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2012
Dispossession written by Marlene Goldman and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
An exploration into the darker aspects of contemporary Canadian fiction.
The Dispossessed State
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Author : Sara L. Maurer
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Dispossessed State written by Sara L. Maurer and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel’s preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested in the question of whether the Irish had rights to their land that could neither be bestowed nor taken away by England. In analyzing how these ideas were represented through a century of British and Irish fiction, journalism, and political theory, Maurer recovers the broad influence of Irish culture on the rest of the British Isles. By focusing on the ownership of land, The Dispossessed State challenges current scholarly tendencies to talk about Victorian property solely as a commodity. Maurer brings together canonical British novelists—Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Meredith—with the writings of major British political theorists—John Stuart Mill, Henry Sumner Maine, and William Gladstone—to illustrate Ireland’s central role in the literary imagination of Britain in the nineteenth century. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies—property, the state, and national identity—and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies.
Spirit Possession Modernity Power In Africa
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Author : Heike Behrend
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1999
Spirit Possession Modernity Power In Africa written by Heike Behrend and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In Africa as well as in Europe, many spirits and their mediums are part of local as well as global cultures. Christian spirits named Hitler, Mussolini, or King Bruce (Bruce Lee) flourish in a pantheon of new holy spirits in Uganda waging war against the government. Spirits of airplanes, engines, guitars, and angels are found in Central Africa; and thunder, snakes, and rain as well as playboys and prostitutes inhabit the spirit world in West Africa. Spirit possession cults have continued to proliferate, even in the secular West, and continue to be a subject of intense interest. Despite the continuous expansion of the field, some problems are only now beginning to be explored. The experts in this volume focus on questions of power, the history and inner dynamics of cults, the role of gender and images of the other, based on research conducted during the last fifteen years in Africa. The contributors document changes taking place across the continent as possession beliefs and practices respond to new circumstances and address the shifting local implications of an increasingly global socio-economy. Gender, ethnicity, and class are examined as intersecting forces and features of spirit phenomena. The case studies presented are richly contextualized: history, social organization and upheaval, alternative religious options--all are considered relevant to an understanding of possession forms. Contributors: Leslie Sharp, Heike Behrend, Adeline Masquelier, Mathias Krings, Jean-Paul Colleyn, Alexandra O. de Sousa, Susan Kenyon, Tobias Wendl, Ute Luig, and Linda Giles Co-published with James Currey Publishers, U.K. The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the United Kingdon, the traditional British Commonwealth (excepting Canada), nor in Europe.
The New Utopian Politics Of Ursula K Le Guin S The Dispossessed
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Author : Laurence Davis
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005-11-22
The New Utopian Politics Of Ursula K Le Guin S The Dispossessed written by Laurence Davis and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions—and snares—of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist, temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.
Tva And The Dispossessed
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Author : Michael J. McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2002-06
Tva And The Dispossessed written by Michael J. McDonald and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06 with Business & Economics categories.
One of the most notable agencies of the New Deal era, the Tennessee Valley Authority was created with a warrant to plan for the socioeconomic improvement of "forgotten" Americans. The construction of the Norris Dam, it was thought, would benefit the region socially as well as economically. This book analyzes and assesses TVA's social experiment in modernization at the grassroots level, using population removal in the Norris Basin as a test case.
The Devil Within
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Author : Brian Levack
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-22
The Devil Within written by Brian Levack and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-22 with Religion categories.
A fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of demon possession and exorcism through the ages. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times. Entire convents of nuns in French, Italian, and Spanish towns, thirty boys in an Amsterdam orphanage, a small group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts—these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States and throughout Europe that Brian Levack closely examines, taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians, biblical scholars, pastors, physicians, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness, the author argues that demoniacs and exorcists—consciously or not—are following their various religious cultures, and their performances can only be understood in those contexts. “Riveting [and] readable . . . must-reading for students of history, psychology and religion.” —Publishers Weekly “Levak, a distinguished historian of early modern witchcraft, now sets exorcism in a long historical perspective, providing the most comprehensive and scholarly overview of the theme yet published.” —Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement