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BEHREND, HEIKE & UTE LUIG (eds). Spirit possession: modernity and power in Africa. xxii, 170 pp., illus., bibliogr. Oxford, Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press, 1999. [pound]40.00 (cloth), [pound]12.95 (paper)

This book consists of ten chapters on spirit possession in ethnographic contexts ranging from the Sudan, Madagascar, and the Kenyan coast to Central and West Africa. The chapters are arranged rather arbitrarily in sections labelled: 'Spirit possession and modernity', 'C...