"The Return of my Grandfather Napoleon": Ancestor worship, impiety, and collective possession in North Honduras
This paper analyzes Dolores's case of collective spirit possession as a paroxysmic form of possession idiom, serving as a powerful and creative internal mechanism that both safeguards and revitalizes the core structure of ancestor worship. Drawing on my ethnographic research in North Honduras s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2025, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-19 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirit Possession
B possession idioms B Religion B North Honduras B Ancestors |
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