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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Glossary Note on language and names Introduction: mountains and plains Part I. Marriage: 1. Marriage stories: speaking of reluctance and control 2. Kinship and the ritualisation of marriage Part II. Healing and the Spirits: 3. Introduction: healing and the 'people who have nothing' 4. Spirit mediums and spirit-companions 5. Spirit mediums and seance forms: changing relations to the spirit world 6. Coda: the birthday-parties of the spirits Part III. Saints and the Dead: 7. The living and the dead 8. The funeral of the 'dead Christ' 9. Kinship, reciprocity and devotions to the saints Part IV. Beauty Contests: 10. Beauty and the idea of 'America' 11. Conclusion: oppression, pity and transformation Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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