Developing the dead : mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo /
This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2015]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780813055275 081305527X 0813050855 9780813050850 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism
- Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion
- On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy
- Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity
- Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization
- Epilogue: biographical intersections.