Stuart Earle Strange

Suspect Others

Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.

Produktdetails

• Anthropological Horizons
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 237mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781487509705
• ISBN-10: 1487509707
• Artikelnr.: 62186954

Autorenporträt

Stuart Earle Strange is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.Settlement and Self-Doubt
2.A Fragmented Unity: Hindu Selves, Doubt, and Shakti Ritual
3.Mediated Selves: Ndyuka Knowledge, Suspicion, and Revelation
4.Painful Interactions
5.Dreams at the Limits of Knowledge
6.Revealing Ironies of Racecraft
Conclusion
Bibliography