Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

Record summary

Jean Comaroff’s work examines Tswana Christianity, bodily experience, illness and spiritual power under colonial conditions. It is relevant to apparition research because dreams, possession and encounters with spiritual agents are situated within changing religious and political institutions. The source is an interpretive historical anthropology, not a neutral collection of paranormal reports. Any usable lead should be extracted from a named chapter, informant account or cited mission record, with attention to whether the entity is an ancestor, Christian figure, witchcraft agent or metaphorical presence.