The Familial Occult

Alexandra Coțofană is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining Zayed University, she held a Lectureship in History and Anthropology at Butler University.

List of Figures



Introduction: “How Does That Make You Feel?” Writing about the Familial Occult as Therapy

Alexandra Coțofană



Chapter 1. A Chinese American Religious Healer: Towards Filial Ethnography

Kin Cheung



Chapter 2. I am My Mother’s Son: Revelations of the Divine

Earl Clarence L. Jimenez



Chapter 3. Of Bibles and Broads: The familial occult as Academic Lens

Alexandra Coțofană



Chapter 4. Facing My Genies: A Commute between Self, Familial Spirits, and Anthropology

Kamal Feriali



Chapter 5. On Familial Occultism

James M. Nyce



Chapter 6. The Familial Occult in Yakutia: Changeling Children and Tricking Demons

Natalya Khokholova



Chapter 7. Can Ethnography of the Occult Be Transformed into Occult Ethnography? Contextualizing a Local Religious Practice in Abkhazia

Rita Kuznetsova and Igor Kuznetsov



Chapter 8. “My father was a Reader”: Practices of Folk Medicine in Northern Sweden

Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist and Johan Wedel



Conclusion



References

Index