Spirit Possession Revisited: Beyond Instrumentality
Annual Review of Anthropology October 1, 1994 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.an.23.100194.002203 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 416 |
| Key points | Argues that infrastructures are material forms that enable exchange over space and that anthropological attention to them illuminates how goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked through physical networks. |
Abstract
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
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