Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come to possess them.

Dramatis personae

Part One: Introductions
1. Cohabiting
2. Acknowledging Spirits
3. Tumbu: The Search for Livelihood and Land

Part Two: Arrivals of the Spirits
4. Mohedja, Kos Vola, and the Line of Women
5. Mze Nuru: Affirmation and Identification
6. Mze Marwan and Mze Rihu: Consolidation and Cooperation
7. Ndramboeny: Mohedja as a Curer
8. Darouesh and the Suitors

Part Three: Family Matters
9. Raising Children
10. Treating Mariam’s Baby
11. Ali’s Marriage
12. Mohedja and Her Mother-in-Law

Part Four: Scenes from a Marriage
13. Playing and Working: Kalu and the Kakanoru
14. Later Arrivals: Maimuna, Rasua, and the Spirit of the Maulida

Part Five: Final Matters
15. Decline, Death, Succession
16. Reflections on Voice
Psychoanalytic Postscript

Notes
References
Index