Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa

by Paul Stoller

Book Overview

A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415908779
• ISBN13: 9780415908771
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.4"