Spirited encounters: Notes on the politics and poetics of representing the uncanny in anthropology

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 386-406

  Goslinga, Gillian ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural; Difference; Epistemology; Ethnography; History; Les Ma tres Fous; Political ontology; Relativism; Representation; Spirit possession; The uncanny

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879396978     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499613479266     Document Type: Article

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