Making Spirits

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Making Spirits is written by Diana Espirito Santo and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0755625757 (ISBN 10) and 9780755625758 (ISBN 13).

Introduction /Diana Espirito Santo and Nico Tassi --Part I. Spirits in the making.Materiality, cosmogony and presence among Cuban spirits and mediums /Diana Espirito Santo --Conchas, candles and flowers in the creation of the Concheros' religiosity /Susanna Rostas --'We worship nature' : the given and the made in Brazilian Candomblé /Roger Sansi --Part II. Transformations.Knowing what has been done : the techniques of ritual 'objects' among the Abelam (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) /Ludovic Coupaye --Objects, bodies and gods : a cognitive ethnography of an ontological dynamic in the Xangô cult (Recife-Brazil) /Arnaud Halloy --Divinity and experiment : conversion in a Japanese jam jar /Philip Swift --Part III. Matter and spiritual power.Things we grow with : spirits, matter and bodies in La Paz, Bolivia /Nico Tassi --Forms of fetishism in Kinshasa : historical insights and contemporary practices /Joe Trapido --Making matter matter : the Santo Daime ritual of feitio /Andrew Dawson.