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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 of the
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Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily term
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Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understan