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Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems-ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being-alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
The Neurobiology of C. elegans assembles together a series of
chapters describing the progress researchers have made toward
solving some of the major problems in neurobiology with the use of
this powerful model organism. The first chapter is an introduction
to the anatomy of the C. elegans nervous system. This chapter
provides a useful introduction to this system and will help the
reader who is less familiar with this system understand the
chapters that follow. The next two chapters on learning,
conditioning and memory and neuronal specification and
differentiation, summarize the current state of the C. elegans
field in these two major areas of neurobiology. The remaining
chapters describe studies in C. elegans that have provided
particularly exciting insights into neurobiology.
Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as
Vodún, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for
hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while
simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and
globalization. Spirit Service: Vodún and Vodou in the African
Atlantic World explores this dynamic religion, its mobility, and
its place in the modern world. By examining the systems—ritual
practices, community-based spirit veneration, and spiritual means
of securing opportunity and well-being—alongside the individuals
who worship, this rich collection offers the first comprehensive
ethnographic study of West African spirit service on a broad scale.
Contributors consider social encounters between African/Haitian
practitioners and European / North American spiritual seekers,
economies and histories, funerary rites and spirit possessions, and
examinations of gender and materiality. Offering much-needed
perspective on this historically disparaged religion, Spirit
Service reminds us all that the gods are growing, assimilating, and
demanding recognition and respect.
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