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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession

Michael C. Peletz

American Ethnologist February 1, 1997 DOI: 10.1525/ae.1997.24.1.247.2 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics	Ethnography Peer reviewed
Population	Residents of Mayotte
Key findings	Argues that Islam, sorcery, and spirit possession in Mayotte constitute an integrated system of knowledge and practice, rather than separate or contradictory domains, and that local discourses reveal a sophisticated understanding of social and personal life.

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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession. MICHAEL LAMBEK. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. xxx + 468 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, references, index.