ISBN:
0987422448
,
9780987422446
Language:
English
Pages:
364 S.
,
Ill
,
22 cm
Keywords:
Parapsychology and anthropology
;
Channeling (Spiritualism) Cross-cultural studies
;
Mediums Cross-cultural studies
;
Mediums Case studies
Abstract:
Overview. Talking with the spirits : ethnographies from between the worlds / David Luke & Jack Hunter -- Believing impossible things : scepticism and ethnographic enquiry / Fiona Bowie -- An agnostic social scientific perspective on spirit medium experience in Great Britain / Hannah Gilbert -- Spirits in the city : examples from Montreal / Deirdre Meintel -- Mediumship and folk models of mind and matter / Jack Hunter -- Cyber psychics : psychic readings in online social spaces / Tamlyn Ryan -- Spirit possession in East Africa / Barbara Stöckight -- Developing the dead in Cuba : an ethnographic account of the emergence of spirits and selves in Havana / Diana Espirito Santo -- Mediumship in Brazil : the holy war against spirits and African gods / Bettina E. Schmidt -- Psychedelic possession : the growing incorporation of incorporation into Ayahuasca use / David Luke -- Anomalous mental and physical phenomena of Brazilian mediums : a review of the scientific literature / Everton de Oliveira Maraldi, Wellington Zangari, Fatima Regina Machado, Stanley Krippner -- Spirit mediums in Hong Kong and United States / Charles F. Emmons -- Vessels for the gods : Tang-ki spirit mediumship in Singapore and Taiwan / Fabian Graham --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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