Individual bodily experience has been excluded from Western general social-scientific discourse and this has led to prejudices about the relation between individuals and the concept of society. Scientific concepts like pluralization, generalization, and abstraction are described against the background of classifications imposed on individual bodies. The central argument is that social science hardly develops because it fails to distinguish generalizations from abstractions, despite linguistic...

In 1992, a vessel full of illegal migrants travels from Haiti to the United States. A storm forces them to land in the bayous of New Orleans, among them a woman with a baby boy. The trafficker, wanting to eliminate witnesses, murders all of them except the little boy. Joseph, a trapper, finds the boy and holds him. He is arrested for their murder and ends up in Orleans Parish Prison. In 2004, New Orleans, an evil Vodou (Bokor) priest, seeks subjects to perform in his spell-binding trance ritu...