Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger by Adeline Masquelier
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger
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Adeline Masquelier
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Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger

Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice

Adeline Masquelier

368 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these wild forces in the context of possession ceremonies. In Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Adeline Masquelier of...

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