The naked spirit: Disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession

Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 122-148

  Masquelier, Adeline ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149109796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (37)

1. Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1993. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Ahmed, Lila. 1992. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
3. Bastian, Misty L. 2001. ''Dancing Women and Colonial Men: The Nwaobiala of 1925.'' In ''Wicked'' Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa, ed. Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy, pp. 109-29. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann.
4. Bataille, André. 1986. Eroticism: Death and Sensuality. Trans. Mary Dalwood. San Francisco: City Lights.
5. Beidelman, T. O. 1968. Some Nuer Notions of Nakedness, Nudity, and Sexuality. Africa 38(2): 113-31.
6. Berger, John. 1972. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.
7. Boddy, Janice. 1989. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
8. Bowlby, Rachel. 1987. ''Modes of Shopping: Mallarmé at the Bon Marché.'' In The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality, ed. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse, pp. 185-205. New York: Methuen.
9. Clark, Kenneth. 1956. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form. Washington, D.C.: Pantheon.
10. Crapanzano, Vincent. 1980. Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. Darrah, Allan. 1980. A Hermeneutic Approach to Hausa Therapeutics: The Allegory of the Living Fire. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University.
12. Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
13. Goheen, Miriam. 1996. Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
14. Grégoire, Emmanuel. 1993. ''Islam and the Identity of Merchants in Maradi (Niger).'' In Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. Louis Brenner, pp. 106-15. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
15. Gumi, Sheikh Abubakar. 1992. Where I Stand. Lagos: Spectrum.
16. Herbert, Eugenia W. 1993. Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
17. Kaberry, Phyllis. 1952. Women of the Grassfields: A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Bamenda, British Cameroons. London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office.
18. Kane, Ousmane. 1994. ''Izala: The Rise of Muslim Reformism in Northern Nigeria.'' In Accounting for Fundamentalisms, ed. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, pp. 488-510. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
19. MacGaffey, Wyatt. 2000. Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
20. Mack, Beverly. 2004. Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
21. Masquelier, Adeline. 1995. Consumption, Reproduction, and Prostitution: The Poetics of Sweetness in Bori. American Ethnologist 22(4): 883-906.
22. Masquelier, Adeline. 1996a. ''Identity, Alterity, and Ambiguity in a Nigerien Community: Competing Definitions of 'True' Islam.'' In Postcolonial Identities in Africa, ed. Richard Werbner, pp. 222-44. London: Zed.
23. Masquelier, Adeline. 1996b. ''Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori.'' In Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa, ed. Hildi Hendrickson, pp. 66-93. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
24. Masquelier, Adeline. 1999. ''Debating Muslims, Disputed Practices: Struggles for the Realization of an Alternative Moral Order in Niger.'' In Civil Society and the Political Imagina tion in Africa: Critical Perspectives, ed. John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, pp. 219-50. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
25. Masquelier, Adeline. 2001. Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
26. Masquelier, Adeline. 2002. From Hostage to Host: Confessions of a Spirit Medium in Niger. Ethos 30(1): 49-76.
27. Masquelier, Adeline. In press. '' 'Our Prayers Are Better Than Yours': Contested Models of Islamic Worship in Dogondoutchi, Niger.'' In Religious Modernities in West Africa: New Moralities in Colonial and Postcolonial Societies, ed. John Hanson and Rijk van Dijk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
28. Mernissi, Fatima. [1975] 1987. Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society. Reprint, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
29. Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1981. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
30. Perniola, Mario. 1989. ''Between Clothing and Nudity.'' In Fragments for a History of the Human Body, vol. 2, ed. Michel Feher, pp. 237-65. New York: Zone.
31. Sabbah, Fatna Aït. 1984. Woman in the Muslim Unconscious. Trans. Mary Jo Lakeland. New York: Pergamon.
32. Sanders, Todd. 2000. Rains Gone Bad, Women Gone Mad: Rethinking Gender Rituals of Rebellion and Patriarchy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, n.s. 6: 469-86.
33. Takougang, Joseph, and Milton H. Krieger. 1998. African State and Society in the 1990s: Cameroon's Political Crossroads. Boulder, Colo.: Westview.
34. Taussig, Michael. 1999. Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
35. Turner, Terence. 1980. ''The Social Skin.'' In Not Work Alone: A Cross-Cultural View of Activities Superfluous to Survival, ed. Jeremy Cherfas and Roger Lewin, pp. 112-40. London: Temple Smith.
36. Turner, Victor. 1967. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
37. Umar, Muhammad Sani. 1993. ''Changing Islamic Identity in Nigeria from the 1960s to the 1980s: From Sufism to Anti-Sufism.'' In Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. Louis Brenner, pp. 154-78. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.