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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
The Familial Occult
Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography
Edited by Alexandra Coțofană
Afterword by James M. Nyce
206 pages, 12 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-175-3 Hb Published (November 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80539-389-4
web ISBN 978-1-80539-389-4