Trance Mediums and New Media

Heike Behrend was Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Cologne. Anja Dreschke is Research Associate at the University of Siegen. Martin Zillinger is Lecturer in media anthropology at the University of Siegen.

This volume explores the interferences of trance mediums and new technical media to add a new perspective to current debates on the ¿renaissance of the religious¿. Situated in the field of media anthropology it follows the question of how spirit possession is transformed by processes of globalization and mass mediation.

I. Media-Techniques of Trance 1) Erhard Schuttpelz (Siegen): Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term 2) Rosalind C. Morris (New York): On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media 3) Ute Holl (Basel): Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics 4) Anja Dreschke (Siegen): Possession Play: On Trance Rituals and Impersonation Among the Cologne Tribes II. Mediation and Circulation of Trance Mediums/Media 1) Dorothea Schulz (Cologne): Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali 2) Martin Zillinger (Siegen): Absence and the Medialization of the Audio-Visual Unconscious 3) Emilio Spadola (New York): Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco 4) Laurel Kendall (New York): Numinous Dress/Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera 5) Getrud Huwelmeier (Berlin): Mediating the Apocalypse: The Disaster of the Titanic in Vietnamese Pentecostal Discourse III. Manifestation, Transformation and Aesthetics of Trance Mediums/Media 1) Claudia Bohme (Mainz): "Look With Your Own Eyes!" Visualization of Spirit Media and their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films 2) Heike Behrend (Cologne): Spaces of Refusal: Iconoclastic/Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography 3) Lidia Guzy (Berlin): Medial Transformations: Music, Goddess-Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa/India 4) Christopher Pinney (London): Manifestation and Media: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India