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Author:   Alexandra Cotofana
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391753

ISBN 10:   1805391755
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   10 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: How Does That Make You Feel? Writing about the Familial Occult as Therapy Alexandra Cotofana Chapter 1. A Chinese American Religious Healer: Towards Filial Ethnography Kin Cheung Chapter 2. I am My Mother's Son: Revelations of the Divine Earl Clarence L. Jimenez Chapter 3. Of Bibles and Broads: The familial occult as Academic Lens Alexandra Cotofana Chapter 4. Facing My Genies: A Commute between Self, Familial Spirits, and Anthropology Kamal Feriali Chapter 5. On Familial Occultism James M. Nyce Chapter 6. The Familial Occult in Yakutia: Changeling Children and Tricking Demons Natalya Khokholova Chapter 7. Can Ethnography of the Occult Be Transformed into Occult Ethnography? Contextualizing a Local Religious Practice in Abkhazia Rita Kuznetsova and Igor Kuznetsov Chapter 8. My father was a Reader : Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern Sweden Annelie Sjoelander-Lindqvist and Johan Wedel Conclusion References Index

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I found the book to be compelling and fascinating. Some of the authors' evocative writing drew me into the ... stories which resonated with my own family. * Gresilda A. Lilley-Tubbs, Virginia Tech

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Alexandra Cotofana is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining Zayed University, she held a Lectureship in History and Anthropology at Butler University.

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