Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola)
Blood, kin, and shared mediumship in xinguilamento ritual practice (Luanda, Angola) Xinguilamento is an Angolan ritual based on possession by ilundu spirits. Ilundu are considered to be hereditary illnesses transmitted…
Substances and relationalities
Substances and relationalities Go to Source
Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations
Performing substances: Making and tracking relational configurations Go to Source
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago
Bones and snakes: Kinship, substances, and its reverse in a south-eastern Brazilian archipelago Through two stories collected among residents of the Ilhabela archipelago during my PhD fieldwork on how to…
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina
Performing ritual substances as relational life forces in Northwestern Andean Argentina In the upland indigenous villages of Northwestern Andean Argentina, the ethnography of ritual offerings to the Pachamama (Mother Earth)…