Social life of spirits, the
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226081779
Date de publication :
22 nov. 2013
Dimensions :
2,3 x 1,6 x 0,2 cm
Poids :
482 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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. This book challenges this notion.