Michel Leiris, who pops up in these notes in a variety of places, is offhandedly mentioned as a "French surrealist poet and ethnographer" who has written on Ethiopian possession
he has an [untranslated?] 1958 book on the topic
La possession et ses aspects théâtraux chez les Éthiopiens de Gondar
> from I. M. Lewis' Ecstatic Religion (2002)
> tagged with #africa, #investigate, #ecstasy, #surrealism
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