Spirit Possession and Role Stress among the Xesibe of Eastern Transkei
1982 M. C. O'Connell
The relationship between spirit possession and certain categories of people is now well known. Lewis (1966, 1969, 1971) has shown that possession usually occurs among marginal, subordinate, and underprivileged people, and that it is one of the ways in which such people gain recognition and improve their status or rights. However, not all such people suffer from possession. What accounts for the...