The mind possessed the cognition of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2007, 2007
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| Series: | Anthropology online
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| Collection: | Anthropology Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index
- Introducing possession
- Historical and ethnographic setting
- The research community
- Describing, interpreting, and explaining spirit possession
- Medicalist, physiological, and sociological explanations - - Spirits as concepts
- Observing possession
- The social relevance of spirits
- Explaining distributions of spirit concepts and spirit possession