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Analysis reveals collective ecstasy techniques in Martinique, highlighting anticolonial social organization models.
The anarchic embrace of difference in the encounters of and variations on Western and non-Western spiritual practices in Martinique reveals ways of disrupting the univocal, linear, and centralizing violence of plantation society. Examining the various techniques of collective ecstasy through song, dance, and other sacramental signs of spirit possession calls attention to anticolonial models of social organization, and presencing.
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