Judy Rosenthal

Broschiertes Buch

Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo

Beschreibung

Records the results of the author's 11-year study of Gorovodo, the voodoo practised by West Africa's Ewe populations of coastal Ghana, Togo and Benin. The work represents an ethnography of spirit possession that focuses on law and morality in ""medicine voodoo"" orders.

Autor

Judy Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan--Flint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780813918051
• ISBN-10: 0813918057
• Artikelnr.: 21745851