Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion Fairy Tales Many years later

Many years later

Butterfly Blessings in the Face of Cancer

She'll need to work together with her health care team and her family

Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist anthropological currents to explore the nature of the rural Afro-Jamaican gender system

Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion Fairy Tales Many years laterSpirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with interactions among meaning, embodiment, and subjectivity.