Description
Book Synopsis The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.
Trade Review “I found the book to be compelling and fascinating. Some of the authors’ evocative writing drew me into the … stories which resonated with my own family.” • Gresilda A. Lilley-Tubbs, Virginia Tech
Table of Contents List of Figures
Introduction: “How Does That Make You Feel?” Writing about the Familial Occult as Therapy
Alexandra Coțofană
Chapter 1. A Chinese American Religious Healer: Towards Filial Ethnography
Kin Cheung
Chapter 2. I am My Mother’s Son: Revelations of the Divine
Earl Clarence L. Jimenez
Chapter 3. Of Bibles and Broads: The familial occult as Academic Lens
Alexandra Coțofană
Chapter 4. Facing My Genies: A Commute between Self, Familial Spirits, and Anthropology
Kamal Feriali
Chapter 5. On Familial Occultism
James M. Nyce
Chapter 6. The Familial Occult in Yakutia: Changeling Children and Tricking Demons
Natalya Khokholova
Chapter 7. Can Ethnography of the Occult Be Transformed into Occult Ethnography? Contextualizing a Local Religious Practice in Abkhazia
Rita Kuznetsova and Igor Kuznetsov
Chapter 8. “My father was a Reader”: Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern Sweden
Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist and Johan Wedel
Conclusion
References
Index
