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  • EMBODYING COLONIAL MEMORIES
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    EMBODYING COLONIAL MEMORIES
    PAUL STOLLER
    A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans...

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  • YAYA'S STORY
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    YAYA'S STORY
    PAUL STOLLER
    Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illne...

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  • IN SORCERY'S SHADOW
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    IN SORCERY'S SHADOW
    PAUL STOLLER / CHERYL OLKES
    The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world. ...

    $524.17

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  • MONEY HAS NO SMELL
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    MONEY HAS NO SMELL
    PAUL STOLLER
    In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In Money Has No Smell, Paul Stoller offers us a more complete portrait of the complex lives of West African immigrants like Diallo, a portrait based on years of research Stoller conducted o...

    $576.60

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  • FUSION OF THE WORLDS
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    FUSION OF THE WORLDS
    PAUL STOLLER
    "This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."—Choice "Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh and blood in the 'fusion' with human existence. . . . An excellent demonstration of the benefits of a n...

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  • THE POWER OF THE BETWEEN
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    THE POWER OF THE BETWEEN
    PAUL STOLLER
    It is the anthropologist’s fate to always be between things: countries, languages, cultures, even realities. But rather than lament this, anthropologist Paul Stoller here celebrates the creative power of the between, showing how it can transform us, changing our conceptions of who we are, what we know, and how we live in the world. Beginning with his early days with the Peace C...

    $489.21

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