Cohabiting with Spirits

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Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

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Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come to possess them.

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Dramatis personae

Part One: Introductions

1. Cohabiting
2. Acknowledging Spirits
3. Tumbu: The Search for Livelihood and Land

Part Two: Arrivals of the Spirits

4. Mohedja, Kos Vola, and the Line of Women
5. Mze Nuru: Affirmation and Identification
6. Mze Marwan and Mze Rihu: Consolidation and Cooperation
7. Ndramboeny: Mohedja as a Curer
8. Darouesh and the Suitors

Part Three: Family Matters

9. Raising Children
10. Treating Mariam’s Baby
11. Ali’s Marriage
12. Mohedja and Her Mother-in-Law

Part Four: Scenes from a Marriage

13. Playing and Working: Kalu and the Kakanoru
14. Later Arrivals: Maimuna, Rasua, and the Spirit of the Maulida

Part Five: Final Matters

15. Decline, Death, Succession
16. Reflections on Voice
    Psychoanalytic Postscript

Notes
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Index