The fact that anthropologists ‘construct’ the field in which they conduct their ethnographic research has long been recognized, but less considered are the ways in which the field can ‘construct’ both the anthropologist and fieldwork practices. In many ways this process is a natural corollary of the fact that researchers must always adapt and sensitize themselves to the realities of their field...

universal across cultures and is documented in many ethnographic studies. Khalifa &Hardie assert that possession states can be understood only through a combination of biological, anthropological, sociological, psychopathological and experimental perspectives. Psychiatrist and anthropologist Roland Littlewood sees possession as the belief that an individual has been entered by an alien spirit o...