Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (Anthropological Horizons) - Softcover

Strange, Stuart Earle

 
9781487540265: Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (Anthropological Horizons)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1487540264 ISBN 13: 9781487540265
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self.

Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.

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Stuart Earle Strange is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487540264
ISBN 13 
9781487540265
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Breda
4831 GR
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