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Reinterpretation and the Mechanisms of Culture Change
Author Institution: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus 1
Dynamic regulation of CD24 and the invasive, CD44posCD24neg phenotype in breast cancer cell lines
Seeing the eyes of god in human form: iconography and impersonation in african and hindu traditions of trance performance in the southern caribbean
âHe Who Has the Spirits Must Work a Lotâ : A Psycho-Anthropological Account of Spirit Possession in the Dominican Republic
In this paper we present a multidisciplinary, developmental analysis of a Dominican Republic Vodou servidor (âMarcosâ), from childhood to early adulthood, integrating ethnographic observation, field documentation, and anthropological analysis, with relevant constructs from developmental, personality, and clinical psychology. Marcos transitioned from a child with many problems to a young adult who has learnt how to control and adapt dissociative manifestations into a professional role as a Vodou priest. Most empirical studies on spirit possession (SP) have rarely taken a longitudinal, multidisciplinary approach, which may better account for such a complex phenomenon. Adopting such an approach helps make sense of both the continuity and changes in Marcos, as well as of his community's shifting attitudes towards him. We describe how specific psychological and cultural conditions help explain the change from originally dysfunctional expressions of SP to personally and socially beneficial ones. [anomalous experience, dissociation, gender, spirit possession, Vodou]