Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and Spirit Possession among Maasai in Tanzania

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Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and Spirit Possession among Maasai in Tanzania

Dorothy Hodgson

Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa, pp.111-129

Routledge

1997

Abstract

Spirit possession

Maasai (African people)

Comparative Religion

Sociology of Sex and Gender

Tanzania

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Title: Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity
Creators: Dorothy Hodgson - Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology
Publication Details: Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa, pp.111-129
Publisher: Routledge; New York
Identifiers: 9923906465801921
Copyright: Routledge, 1997
Academic Unit: Department of Anthropology
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter