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Spirits
in
Culture,
History
and
Mind

edited
by
Jeannette Marie Mageo
and
Alan Howard

Introduction

Alan Howard and Jeannette Marie Mageo

 

Gods, Spirits, and History: A Theoretical Perspective

Robert I. Levy, Jeannette Marie Mageo, and Alan Howard

 

Continuity and Shape Shifting: Samoan Spirits in Culture History

Jeannette Marie Mageo

 

They Loved Her Too Much: Interpreting Spirit Possession in Tonga

Tamar Gordon

 

Heteroglossic Discourses on Nukulaelae Spirits

Niko Besnier

 

Spirit Encounters on a Polynesian Outlier: Anuta, Solomon Islands

Richard Feinberg

 

Speak of the Devils: Discourse and Belief in Spirits on Rotuma

Alan Howard

 

Local and Foreign Spirits in Kwaio, Solomon Islands

David Akin

 

Apparitions, Orations, and Rings: Experience of Spirits in Dadul

Harvey Whitehouse

 

Spirit Possession in Chuuk

Francis X. Hezel and Jay D. Dobbin

 

Cultural and Experiential Aspects of Spirit Beliefs Among the Toraja

Douglas Hollan

 

Afterword: Spirits and Their Histories

Michael Lambek