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Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought: An Intellectual History 0739184660, 9780739184660
Table of contents : • Elisabeth Spinelli de Oliveira Revista de Etologia Nothing in science makes sense except in the light of history, and ethology does have a rather complex one (Andreas Wessel) Here, we evaluate a sample of the academic production-doctoral theses earned from 2010 to 2014aiming to revisit Ethology at its origin, in order to establish future goals and correct courses. Sites, links and publications related to universities and research Institutions were assessed using keywords (e.g. ethology and animal behavior). Data were organized according to authorship, gender, institution, topic, and main taxonomic group. 295 theses were analyzed, 59±12 per year, all of them from public institutions. Authorship is numerically more feminine (58%) than masculine (42%), following a trend also observed regarding master theses and data from research groups of the Diretório de • Race in Translation
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Possession, Dispossession, and Self-Possession
I: Dispossessions: Nationhood, Citizenship, Personhood, and Poverty
Chapter One: Hegel and Agamben
Chapter Two: States of Exception
Chapter Three: The Newest Utopia
Chapter Four: Mbembe’s “Unhappiness” and Trouillot’s “Fundamentally New Subjects”
II: Possession Dispossessed: Pathologizing and a “Western” Intellectual History of Possession
Chapter Five: “Unhappiness” as Taboo
Chapter Six: Secularizing Possession andFostering Revolution?
Chapter Seven: Leiris’s “Lived Theater”
Chapter Eight: From Haiti to Brazil, from Herskovits to Métraux
Chapter Nine: Verger’s Image in Bataille’sTears of Eros
Chapter Ten: Possession, a Threshold to a Biopolitical Order
III: Repossessing Possession: After Franco-American Ethnography, after Duvalier—Vodou in Depestre’s Interpretations of Brazil, Contemporary (De)Formations
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Race in Translation Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic
Robert Stam | Ella Shohat
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London www.nyupress.org © 2012 by Robert Stam/Ella Shohat All rights reserved References to Internet Websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stam, Robert, 1941Race in translation : culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8147-9837-9 (cl : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8147-9838-6 (pb : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8147-2392-0 (ebook) I