The Guli: A Shrine of Fluctuating Agencies. Materiality, Spirits and Psychosomatic Experience in the Afro-Amerindian Religion of Dugu

The present article explores how the construction of a guli, the spirits’ shrine and the central ritual space par excellence in the Afro-Amerindian religion of Dugu, reveals a material-spiritual dialectic between the spirits of the dead and spirit mediums. I argue that the anthropomorphizing of the...

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Main Author: Perdomo, Marcela (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
In: Material religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 129–150
Further subjects:B Agency
B Materiality
B Ritual
B Afro-Amerindian Garifuna Dugu
B psychosomatic experience
B Social participation
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