audiobook Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper; Keeper of the King's Ships; 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society) by William Soper; Susan Rose; Navy Records Society (Great Britain) in History

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Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger; women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed; featuring drumming and song; take place before an audience of young men and women; who joke and flirt as the ritual unfolds. In her analysis of this tolerated but unofficial cult; Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values; provides case studies of possessed women; and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession.