Transforming Spirit Bodies : Materialization and Embodied Dependencies in South America

Abstract

This edited volume is a comprehensive exploration of the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. It focuses on the embodied experiences of asymmetrical dependencies among humans and spirits and how experiences of (inter-)dependence are negotiated in such interactions. It highlights the ambivalent relationship between spirits and materiality and processes of (de-)materialization.