The hammer and the flute : women, power, and spirit possession / Mary Keller.

"The possession of the body - particularly the body of a woman - by spirits, deities, and ancestors is a phenomenon common to a number of religions. Ethnographers have often studied cases of spirit possession to decode a society's cultural values and belief systems. In The Hammer and the F...

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Main Author: Keller, Mary, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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