Embodying colonial memories : spirit possession, power, and the Hauka in West Africa

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Embodying colonial memories : spirit possession, power, and the Hauka in West Africa

Paul Stoller

Routledge, c1995

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index

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ISBN 9780415908764

内容説明

This is a study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Combining narrative description, historical analysis, and reflections on the importance of mimetic body in social theory, the text uses the example of the Hauka to think creatively about spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social, cultural and political consequences. It argues that mimicry is about power in the world - to copy something is to master it, to tap its power. Through the Hauka, the Songhay have attempted to divert the power of the Europeans to oppose French colonial administration. The second President of Niger was himself a Hauka spirit medium who used elements of Hauka discourse to govern the Republic of Niger from 1974 to 1987.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415908771

内容説明

A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated into a spirit possession troupe, recounts an insider's tale of the Hauka with respect and "brotherly" deference. He combines narrative description, historical analysis, and reflections on the importance of embodiment and mimesis to social theory, with particular reference to the Songhay peoples of the Republic of Niger.

目次

  • Chapter 1 Prologue Diplomacy On A Dune
  • Part one Sensing Spirit Possession
  • Chapter 2 Introduction Sensing Ethnography
  • Chapter One Spirit Possession
  • Chapter Two Cultural Memory
  • Chapter Three Embodied Memories
  • Part two Confronting Colonialism in West Africa
  • Chapter 6 Introduction Forms of Confrontation
  • Chapter Four From First Contacts to Military Part Ition
  • Chapter Five Colonizing West Africa
  • Chapter Six Embodied Oppositions
  • Part three Migrating with the Hauka
  • Chapter 10 Introduction Thunderous Gods
  • Chapter Seven Colonizing Niger
  • Chapter Eight The Birth of the Hauka Movement
  • Chapter Nine Transgressing to the Gold Coast
  • Part four Transforming State Power The Hauka Movement in the Postcolony of Niger
  • Chapter 14 Introduction Crossing Ceremonial Boundaries
  • Chapter Ten Independence and the Postcolony of Niger
  • Chapter Eleven Peasant and Hauka in Niger's Postcolony
  • Chapter Twelve The Hauka and the Government of General Seyni Kountche
  • Chapter 18 Epilogue Memory, Power, and Spirit Possession

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