Familial Occult

Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography

AvAlexandra Coțofană

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:446 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:EASA Series
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805391753

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Magi och ockulta studier inom Filosofi och religion
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Alexandra Coțofană 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.

Recensioner i media

“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

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresIntroduction: “How Does That Make You Feel?” Writing about the Familial Occult as TherapyAlexandra CoțofanăChapter 1. A Chinese American Religious Healer: Towards Filial EthnographyKin CheungChapter 2. I am My Mother’s Son: Revelations of the DivineEarl Clarence L. JimenezChapter 3. Of Bibles and Broads: The familial occult as Academic LensAlexandra CoțofanăChapter 4. Facing My Genies: A Commute between Self, Familial Spirits, and AnthropologyKamal FerialiChapter 5. On Familial OccultismJames M. NyceChapter 6. The Familial Occult in Yakutia: Changeling Children and Tricking DemonsNatalya KhokholovaChapter 7. Can Ethnography of the Occult Be Transformed into Occult Ethnography? Contextualizing a Local Religious Practice in AbkhaziaRita Kuznetsova and Igor KuznetsovChapter 8. “My father was a Reader”: Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern SwedenAnnelie Sjölander-Lindqvist and Johan WedelConclusionReferencesIndex