The Politics of Possession
The Politics of Possession

Author: Thomas Sikor

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781444322910

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The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles overaccess to resources and political power constitute property andauthority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to stateformation in societies characterized by normative and legalpluralism. Includes some of the latest theoretical work on the dynamics ofaccess and property and how they are joined to questions of powerand authority Explores how access to resources is often contested and rifewith conflict, particularly in post-colonial and post-socialistcountries Offers a thought-provoking approach to the study of everydayprocesses of state formation Shows how the process of seeking authorization for propertyclaims works to legitimize the authorizers, and the effortsundertaken by politico-legal institutions to gain legitimacyunderpin and undermine various claims of access and property Contributors explore from a wide empirical compass of originalresearch spanning Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia, andEastern Europe

Taking Possession
Taking Possession

Author: Heidi Aronson Kolk

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781625344144

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Introduction : the burglary -- The neighborhood -- Caretaking -- The auction -- The opening -- The receipt book -- The dinner party -- Two buckskin suits -- Restoration -- Conclusion : no place like home.

No Deal!
No Deal!

Author: Tressa Lynn Berman

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934691472

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No Deal! encompasses a diverse group of artists, curators, art historians, and anthropologists from Australia and North America in order to investigate social relations of possession through the artifacts and motifs of Indigenous expressive culture. The contributors speak from the standpoints of Indigenous systems of knowledge as well as from western epistemologies and their institutions, interrogating what it means to "own culture." The case studies in this volume contribute to notions of "ownership" and "possession" through the lens of art and its associated rights to production, circulation, performance, and representation. Cover image: Jennifer Herd, No Deal!, 2004. Courtesy of the artist.

Frontiers of Possession
Frontiers of Possession

Author: Tamar Herzog

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0674735382

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Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.

Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right
Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right

Author: Laurie M. Johnson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781315112657

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Preface -- Jung's political thought : an introduction -- Lessons from nietzsche -- Jung's psycho-theological history -- Jung and the Nazi movement -- Jung and race -- Signs of mass psychosis -- The rise of the new right -- Conclusion.

Having
Having

Author: William Schweiker

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780802824844

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In today's market economies, people constitute much of their identity in relation to the things they possess, and communities facilitate social intercourse and survival by means of property relations. What, if anything, might the study of the biblical religions contribute to thinking about and responding to the basic reality of "having"? In this book scholars in a variety of fields -- theology, ethics, economics, and biblical studies -- address in new and penetrating ways the meaning of "having" in religious and social life and offer a number of compelling answers to challenging questions about property and possession in our present, global age.

Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession
Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession

Author: Ed Warren

Publisher: Graymalkin Media

Published: 2014-10-04

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1631680218

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The legend of the werewolf is as old as man himself. From Ed and Lorraine Warren, the world’s most famous demonologists, comes perhaps their most incredible and horrifying case: the true story of William Ramsey, whose bizarre seizures terrified the English town of Southend-on-Sea. Believing Ramsey to be a victim of demonic possession, the Warrens arranged for the rite of exorcism to be performed. Not since the exorcist shocked the nation has there been such a such a horrifying account of a supernatural battle between good and evil within the soul of one human. Don’t miss the Warrens' blockbuster films The Conjuring and Annabelle (in theaters October, 2014.)

Prize Possession
Prize Possession

Author: John Major

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780521521260

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Prize Possession is a history of United States policy towards the Panama Canal, focusing principally on the first two generations of American tenure of the Canal Zone between 1904 and 1955. John Major also provides an extensive look at the nineteenth-century background, the making of the 1903 canal treaty with Panama, the move after 1955 towards the new treaty settlement of 1977, and the crucial significance of the Canal to American policy-makers and their public. The book is based for the most part on the hitherto largely untapped sources of US government agencies, namely, the State, War, and Navy Department, and the Canal Zone administration, as well as on the papers of notable dramatis personae such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Philippe Bunau-Varilla. As such it makes an important and original contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a subject which has not yet received its due from historians.

The Possession at Loudun
The Possession at Loudun

Author: Michel de Certeau

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0226100359

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It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which have appeared in English translation as The Practice of Everyday Life,The Writing of History, and The Mystic Fable, Volume 1, the last of which is published by The University of Chicago Press. "Brilliant and innovative. . . . The Possession at Loudun is [de Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most wonderful."—Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)