Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship
Ethnographic Inquiries into New Communities of Practice and Enskilment
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Beschreibung
This open access volume presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally interconnected world. The increased mobility of people, things, signs, and symbols that shape and reshape trance practices and spiritual experiences has significantly widened their scope and outreach. Circulating body techniques, symbols, and artifacts play a major role in the re-organization of spirituality and contribute to the emergence of transnational “spirited publics”.
The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally interconnected world. The increased mobility of people, things, signs, and symbols that shape and reshape trance practices and spiritual experiences has significantly widened their scope and outreach. Circulating body techniques, symbols, and artifacts play a major role in the re-organization of spirituality and contribute to the emergence of transnational “spirited publics”.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Advances the understanding of skills of mediumship, their transmission and transformation in transnational contexts Brings to the public the sum up of two workshops with leading international scholars Explores the different approaches to and the complexities involved in the concept of scale as tackled in anthropology
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Marcello Múscari
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Transnational Mediumship Skills of Mediumship Scaling practices Mediumistic communities of practice Spirituality Open Access