| Description |
282 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alan Howard and Jeannette Marie Mageo -- 1. Gods, Spirits, and History: A Theoretical Perspective / Robert I. Levy, Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard -- 2. Continuity and Shape Shifting: Samoan Spirits in Culture History / Jeannette Marie Mageo -- 3. They Loved Her Too Much: Interpreting Spirit Possession in Tonga / Tamar Gordon -- 4. Heteroglossic Discourses on Nukulaelae Spirits / Niko Besnier -- 5. Spirit Encounters on a Polynesian Outlier: Anuta, Solomon Islands / Richard Feinberg -- 6. Speak of the Devils: Discourse and Belief in Spirits on Rotuma / Alan Howard -- 7. Local and Foreign Spirits in Kwaio, Solomon Islands / David Akin -- 8. Apparitions, Orations, and Rings: Experience of Spirits in Dadul / Harvey Whitehouse -- 9. Spirit Possession in Chuuk / Francis X. Hezel and Jay D. Dobbin -- 10. Cultural and Experiential Aspects of Spirit Beliefs Among the Toraja / Douglas Hollan -- 11. Afterword: Spirits and Their Histories / Michael Lambek |
| Analysis |
Ethnic groups Religion |
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Oceania |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-266) and indexes |
| Subject |
Spirits -- Oceania.
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Spirits -- Indonesia -- South Sulawesi
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Spirit possession -- Indonesia -- South Sulawesi
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Spirit possession -- Oceania.
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Spirit possession -- Comparative studies.
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Spirits -- Comparative studies.
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| SUBJECT |
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663
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Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017724 -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663
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| Author |
Mageo, Jeannette Marie.
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Howard, Alan, 1934-
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| LC no. |
95023713 |
| ISBN |
0415913675 hardback |
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0415913683 paperback |
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