{"product_id":"prayer-has-spoiled-everything-9780822326335","title":"Prayer Has Spoiled Everything","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBori are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these forces in the context of possession ceremonies. This book offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes in human lives, providing meaning for Mawri peasants confronted with cultural contradictions and socio-economic marginalisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Masquelier locates cultural production at precise moments of colonial and postcolonial relations. The result is both an intimate, densely textured portrait of bori spirits and an exciting demonstration of how people attempt to formulate and appropriate the forces that have undermined their community.”—\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eMichael Lambek, author of \u003ci\u003eKnowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With its rich primary data about bori, its creativity and freshness, \u003ci\u003ePrayer Has Spoiled Everything\u003c\/i\u003e will be of enormous interest to Africanists and to religion scholars of many types.”—Karen McCarthy Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eMama Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e List of Terms \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Bori, Power, and Identity in Dogondoutchi \u003cbr\u003e 2. Lost Rituals: Changing Topographies of Spirit\/Human Interactions \u003cbr\u003e 3. Socializing the Spirit \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Everyday Life of Bori: Knowledge, Embodiment, and Quotidian Practice \u003cbr\u003e 5. Kinesthetic Appropriation and Embodied Knowledge: Babou Spirits and the Making of Value \u003cbr\u003e 6. Taking Hold of the \u003ci\u003eKasuwa; \u003c\/i\u003eThe Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Mirrors of Maria: Sweetness, Sexuality, and Dangerous Consumption \u003cbr\u003e 8. Lightning, Death, and the Politics of Truth: The Spirits of Rain \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Bori \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026711383,"sku":"9780822326335","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326335.jpg?v=1730494289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/prayer-has-spoiled-everything-9780822326335","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}