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The social life of spirits

Paperback • 2014 • English

The social life of spirits

By Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo

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"Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories,...Show more

Social research and statistics
Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780226081779

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The social life of spirits

Format

Paperback

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