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Paul Stoller. Fusion of the Worlds. An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. xxii+244pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrations, Index, Maps, Photographs. $24.95. Cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Roberta Ann Dunbar
Roberta Ann Dunbar*
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The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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African Studies Review , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , September 1990 , pp. 210 - 212
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1990

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Notes

1. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

2. Second Edition, London and New York: Routledge, 1989.

3. This argument resonates with others that demonstrate the persistent social utility of overlapping networks of human ties as a rational pattern for coping with the exigencies of modern life. John Tierney argues in “Fanisi's Choice, Science (January-February, 1986) that the strategy of [reproducing] multiple networks underlies the notable lack of success of family planning among those economically hardpressed areas of Kenya where fertility rates remain among the highest in the world.