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Possession, Ecstasy and Law in Ewe Voodoo

By (author) Judy Rosenthal

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Records the results of the author's 11-year study of Gorovodo, the voodoo practised by West Africa's Ewe populations of coastal Ghana, Togo and Benin. The work represents an ethnography of spirit possession that focuses on law and morality in medicine voodoo orders.

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Publisher | University of Virginia Press
Published date | 30 Sep 1998
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
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ISBN | 978-0-8139-1804-4
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BISAC | social science / anthropology / general


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