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Anthropology of Religion
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Performance Studies
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- ISBN 9781845450557
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits; it provides a way to apprehend how society is constituted and conceived and, thus, discusses Zanzibari understandings of what it means to be human.
Kjersti Larsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She has carried out fieldwork in Zanzibar since 1984 and since 1997 has also conducted fieldwork in Northern Sudan.
