@article{ parish_chasing_2013,
  title = {Chasing {Celebrity}: {Akan} {Witchcraft} and {New} {York} {City}},
  volume = {78},
  issn = {00141844},
  shorttitle = {Chasing {Celebrity}},
  url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&AN=87736175&site=ehost-live},
  doi = {10.1080/00141844.2012.690440},
  abstract = {At Akan anti-witchcraft shrines in New York City shrine-priests incorporate into their sacred discourses revelatory knowledge drawn from the American mass-marketing of celebrities, their fashions and lifestyles. Attempting to capture this powerful commodity fetish Hollywood stardom is tacked onto Kente cloth imported from Ghana. Through a powerful act of mimesis, a new hybrid sacred object is created. Young African clients come to shrines desiring fame, fortune and contact with the stars, but witchcraft, perpetuated by female relatives, prevents them from attaining. For shrine-priests, however, the insurmountable problem is that of uncovering any new information about celebrities or discovering witches who camouflage themselves behind the image and aura of stardom so as not to be discovered by the gods. Thus witches and celebrities come to be entangled in clients' social networks.},
  number = {2},
  urldate = {2015-09-25TZ},
  journal = {Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology},
  author = {Parish, Jane},
  month = {June},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {CELEBRITIES, MIMESIS, SACRED space, SOCIAL networks, WITCHCRAFT},
  pages = {280--300}
}

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