Prayer Has Spoiled Everything

Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger

Autor: Adeline Masquelier

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Duke University Press

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Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bo...

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Autor

Adeline Masquelier

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2001

Stránek

368

EAN

9780822326335

ISBN

0822326337

Enbook ID

04937362

Vydavatel

Duke University Press

Hmotnost

788

Rozměry

154 x 228

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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 offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes - sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically - in human lives, providing a constantly renewed source of meaning for Mawri peasants confronted with cultural contradictions and socio-economic marginalisation. To explore the role of bori possession in local definitions of history, power, and identity, Masquelier spent a total of two years in Niger, focusing on the diverse ways in which spirit mediums share, transform, and contest a rapidly changing reality, threatened by Muslim hegemony and financial hardship. She explains how the spread of Islam has provoked irreversible change in the area and how prayer - a conspicuous element of daily life that has become virtually synonymous with Islamic practice in this region of west Africa - has thus become equated with the loss of tradition. By focusing on some of the creative and complex ways that bori at once competes with and borrows from Islam, Masquelier reveals how possession nonetheless remains deeply embedded in Mawri culture, representing more than simple resistance to Islam, patriarchy, or the state. Despite a widening gap between former ways of life and the contradictions of the present, it maintains its place as a feature of daily life in which villagers participate with varying degrees of enthusiasm and approval. Specialists in African studies, in the anthropology of religion, and in the historical transformations of colonial and postcolonial societies will welcome this study.

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