Jack Hunter
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
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Spirit possession is an extremely complex phenomenon, with social,
cultural, psychological and, potentially, parapsychological components.
All of these different aspects interact and coalesce to produce something
that is very difficult to reduce into a simple explanatory scheme.
In this chapter, however, I am going to focus only on the behavioural
aspects of this unusual phenomenon, in particular those aspects that
might be referred to as ‘performance,’ and the way that
performance is utilised in the manifestation of spirits. This is not
because I consider this perspective to be the best for interpreting
and understanding spirit possession, but rather because it illuminates
interesting issues, which in turn highlight other components of the
phenomenon.
This chapter will examine spirit possession practices from a cross-cultural
perspective, drawing on the anthropological and ethnographic literature
on spirit possession, as well as on my own field research with trance
mediums in Bristol. My research takes the form of participant observation
at the Bristol Spirit Lodge, a group devoted to the development of
trance and physical mediumship. The Lodge was established in 2005
by Christine, the circle leader, after she was ‘made aware’
of the reality of spirit mediumship during a seance she attended with
a friend. I have been conducting field research with the group since
2009
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Fonte: Hunter, J. (2013). Numinous
Conversations: Performance and the Manifestation of Spirits in Spirit
Possession Practices. In A. Voss & W. Rowlandson (eds.) (2013).
Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars. pp. 391-403.
- https://www.academia.edu/5145568/Numinous_Conversations_Performance_and_the_Manifestation_of_Spirits_in_Spirit_Possession_Practices
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