Name: Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (en Inglés)
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Author: Strange, Stuart Earle
ISBN: 9781487540265

portada Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (en Inglés)

Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Stuart Earle Strange

Editorial

University of Toronto Press

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

300

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x15.2x2.3 cm

Peso

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781487540265

Categorías

Antropología
Historia
Religión y creencias

Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (en Inglés)

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Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self.Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.