[PDF.01mz] The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession

The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession

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 | #2375789 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2005-03-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.79 x6.00l,.87 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating account of feminine agency!|By Wade Sikorski|This book made me rethink many of my presumptions about human agency. After reading it, I'm wondering if we are ever really in full possession of our selves, if we are not, in fact, more often possessed by our language, our culture, our history, and our family systems. Many theorists and philosophers, like Nietzsche,| ||"[A] provocative exploration of possession theory... Keller is able to offer not only fresh insight into possession phenomena but also a penetrating critique of the categories and concepts with which it has been theorized." (Kelly E. Hayes Journal of Relig

Feminist theory and postcolonial theory share an interest in developing theoretical frameworks for describing and evaluating subjectivity comparatively, especially with regard to non-autonomous models of agency. As a historian of religions, Mary Keller uses the figure of the "possessed woman" to analyze a subject that is spoken-through rather than speaking and whose will is the will of the ancestor, deity or spirit that wields her to engage the question of agency in a...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession   |  Mary Keller. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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