Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon is professor and chair of religious anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa at the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, and senior researcher at the laboratory Institut des Mondes Africains in Paris. She is the author of Chasseurs Mandingues: Violence, Pouvoir et Religion en l'Afrique de l'Ouest and Guérisseurs et féticheurs: médicine traditionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest.

“Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon’s event-centered ethnography shows how people recover a sense of purpose and agency in the face of violence, climate change, and radical uncertainty. Particularly compelling is Manzon’s empathetic and immersive fieldwork, and her insights into how the world of the wild (the more-than-human) affords Mande people oblique and imaginative strategies for coping with recurring crises of comprehension and control.”

• OvertureFirst Movement: Donsoya. Around the huntChapter 1: Donsow: hunters, “civilizing heroes”, and ritual expertsChapter 2. Hunting as a techniqueChapter 3. Animals, spirits and “their” humansSecond Movement: Basitigiya. The practice with “fetishes”Chapter 4. “Fetishes”: those “persons who are not persons”Chapter 5. Flesh against flesh with “fetishes”Third Movement: Jin?d?n. A spirit-possession cultChapter 6. “My she-devil loves a good vibe”: urban spirits and their mastersChapter 7. The technology of possessionChapter 8. Blurred boundaries and (postmodern) construction of selfCodaAcknowledgmentsBibliography

Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon is professor and chair of religious anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa at the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, and senior researcher at the laboratory Institut des Mondes Africains in Paris. She is the author of Chasseurs Mandingues: Violence, Pouvoir et Religion en l'Afrique de l'Ouest and Guérisseurs et féticheurs: médicine traditionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest.

“Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon’s event-centered ethnography shows how people recover a sense of purpose and agency in the face of violence, climate change, and radical uncertainty. Particularly compelling is Manzon’s empathetic and immersive fieldwork, and her insights into how the world of the wild (the more-than-human) affords Mande people oblique and imaginative strategies for coping with recurring crises of comprehension and control.”

• OvertureFirst Movement: Donsoya. Around the huntChapter 1: Donsow: hunters, “civilizing heroes”, and ritual expertsChapter 2. Hunting as a techniqueChapter 3. Animals, spirits and “their” humansSecond Movement: Basitigiya. The practice with “fetishes”Chapter 4. “Fetishes”: those “persons who are not persons”Chapter 5. Flesh against flesh with “fetishes”Third Movement: Jin?d?n. A spirit-possession cultChapter 6. “My she-devil loves a good vibe”: urban spirits and their mastersChapter 7. The technology of possessionChapter 8. Blurred boundaries and (postmodern) construction of selfCodaAcknowledgmentsBibliography

Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon is professor and chair of religious anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa at the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, and senior researcher at the laboratory Institut des Mondes Africains in Paris. She is the author of Chasseurs Mandingues: Violence, Pouvoir et Religion en l'Afrique de l'Ouest and Guérisseurs et féticheurs: médicine traditionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest.

“Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon’s event-centered ethnography shows how people recover a sense of purpose and agency in the face of violence, climate change, and radical uncertainty. Particularly compelling is Manzon’s empathetic and immersive fieldwork, and her insights into how the world of the wild (the more-than-human) affords Mande people oblique and imaginative strategies for coping with recurring crises of comprehension and control.”

• OvertureFirst Movement: Donsoya. Around the huntChapter 1: Donsow: hunters, “civilizing heroes”, and ritual expertsChapter 2. Hunting as a techniqueChapter 3. Animals, spirits and “their” humansSecond Movement: Basitigiya. The practice with “fetishes”Chapter 4. “Fetishes”: those “persons who are not persons”Chapter 5. Flesh against flesh with “fetishes”Third Movement: Jin?d?n. A spirit-possession cultChapter 6. “My she-devil loves a good vibe”: urban spirits and their mastersChapter 7. The technology of possessionChapter 8. Blurred boundaries and (postmodern) construction of selfCodaAcknowledgmentsBibliography