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Suomen Antropologi

2 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2022

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Of Spirits and Virgins

Suomen Antropologi April 27, 2022 Heike Drotbohm 2 citations

So far religious encounters in migratory settings have been largely examined in relation to the pluralizing of religious cultures, the emerging of syncretisms as well as religious conversions. However, many migrants choose to live more than one religion at the same time and integrate themselves into several religious communities with different and sometimes opposing religious agendas. This...

Possessed by a slave, not slavery

Suomen Antropologi April 14, 2022 Anastasios Panagiotopoulos 2 citations

The present paper is divided into three large steps around the themes of spirit possession and the historical imagination of slavery in Cuba. These three steps reflect both ethnographic dimensions of these themes and broader theoretical approaches towards them. The last step, ‘apomimesis’, is the one proposed by the author, not by way of replacement but displace­ment. The first step,...