2014 | Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (3): 185–213 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Sasha Newell.

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• Language: English
• Subjects: fetish; spirit; possession; materiality; semiosis; agency; Newell; North Atlantic
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The matter of the unfetish Hoarding and the spirit of possessions Sasha Newell, North Carolina State University In this article, I employ West African ideas of spirited materiality to rethink the semiosis of possession in North Atlantic societies. I investigate this ethnographically through the lens...