Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions Ohio state University Press In contrast these women writers

In contrast these women writers

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Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years

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tightly plotted tale that balances noir aesthetics with comic book flair

Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions Ohio state University Press In contrast these women writersThe word possession is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into thingsvia slaveryand ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in