Paul Stoller: 8 books
Yaya's Story
The Quest for Well-Being in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna*,* a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s...
Adventures in Blogging
Public Anthropology and Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Paul Stoller has been writing a popular blog for the Huffington Post since 2011. Blogging, says Stoller, allows him to bring an anthropological perspective to contemporary debates, but it also makes him a better writer: snappier, more concise, and more focused on the connection he wants to make with...
Fusion of the Worlds
An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
"This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."—Choice
"Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh...
Embodying Colonial Memories
Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the...
In Sorcery's Shadow
A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.
by K. Paul Stoller
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
When his son was killed in a train accident in 2007, Dr. Stoller discovered the effectiveness of hormone oxytocin in treating Pathological grief. Now, you can benefit from his personal experience, extensive research, and the sharing of this vital and life-changing information.
Climbing the Mountain
The Companion for Your Cancer Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Climbing The Mountain is a user’s guide to the cancer experience. In it, the authors present a narrative of a cancer patient who used preparation (research), practice (exercise and activity), and a variety of social supports to live well within the parameters that cancer imposes. They consider how...
The Sorcerer's Burden
The Ethnographic Saga of a Global Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
This book emerges from the author's 35 years of research and thought about the Songhay people of Niger. This ethnographic novel follows the life of Omar Dia, the oldest son of a West African sorcerer. When his father falls ill and dies, the great sorcerer vomits a small metal chain onto his chest....