The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea
The power of things in a Catholic charismatic movement at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea I analyze the power of things to direct the actions and shape the belief of…
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon
Blood, semen, coca, and tobacco: The transmission of ritual knowledge among the Murui-Muinaɨ Indigenous people of the Amazon Difficulties in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge within Amazonian societies impact collective…
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names
Substantiating the ancestors of an Amazonian Indigenous people in Central Brazil through their personal names It is argued that in the case of the Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil, with…
Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements
Introduction: The im/materiality of Pacific religious movements Instead of reproducing an assumed opposition between immaterial and material religious elements to lived religious worlds, this special section approaches the issue of…
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia
A diagram for eruption: Charismatic Christian revival in 1970s Melanesia Melanesia in the 1970s was the scene of an enormous religious transformation. Across the region, charismatic religiosity engulfed innumerable communities,…
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati
Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati In this study, I explore the role and relationship of material and immaterial entities as constituents of a religious…
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)…