Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Diplomacy on a dune -- Spirit possession -- Cultural memory -- Embodied memories: mimesis and spirit possession -- From first contacts to military partition -- Colonizing West Africa -- Embodied oppositions -- Colonizing Niger -- The birth of the Hauka Movement -- Transgressing to the Gold Coast -- Independence and the postcolony of Niger -- Peasant and Hauka in Niger's postcolony -- The Hauka and the government of General Seyni Kountche -- Epilogue: memory, power, and spirit possession.
