"With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, "Prayer Has Spoiled Everything" will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types."--Karen McCarthy Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn"
"With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, "Prayer Has Spoiled Everything" will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types."--Karen McCarthy Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn"
Adeline Maquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Terms Introduction 1. Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi 2. Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions 3. Socializing the Spirit 4. The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice 5. Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Babou Spirits and the Making of Value 6. Taking Hold of the Kasuwa; The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market 7. The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption 8. Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Terms Introduction 1. Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi 2. Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit/Human Interactions 3. Socializing the Spirit 4. The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice 5. Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Babou Spirits and the Making of Value 6. Taking Hold of the Kasuwa; The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market 7. The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption 8. Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori Notes Bibliography Index
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