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Title: | Human spirits: A cultural account of trance in Mayotte |
Author: | Lambek, M.J. |
Year: | 1981 |
Pages: | 219 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge studies in cultural systems; 6 |
City of publisher: | Cambridge |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
ISBN: | 0521238447 |
Geographic term: | Comoros |
Subject: | spirit possession |
Abstract: | A cultural account, based on field work in 1975-76, of trance as it occurs among the Malagasy speakers of Mayotte. It presents a detailed description, analysis, and interpretation of trance behavior, elaborating the cultural system of 'spirit possession' by which such behavior is organized. |