ISBN:
0-521-38447-8
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978-0-521-38447-6
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xix, 294 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
First published
Serie:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 88
Schlagwort(e):
Indien Savara
;
Tod
;
Religion
;
Schamanismus
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Begräbnissitte
;
Trauer
;
Seelenvorstellung
;
Ethnopsychologie
;
Psychologie
;
Psychoanalyse
;
Psychiatrie
Kurzfassung:
Piers Vitebsky's study of religion and psychology in tribal India focusses upon a unique form of dialogue between the living and the dead, conducted through the medium of a shaman in trance. The dead sometimes nurture their living descendants, yet at other times they inflict upon them the very illnesses from which they died. Through intimate dialogue, the Sora use the occasion of death to explore their closest emotional attachments in all their ambivalence. Dr. Vitebsky analyses the actors' words and relationships over several years and develops a typology of moods among the dead and of kinds of memory among the living. In comparing Sora shamanism with the treatment of bereavement in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, he highlights a contrast in their assumption which has far-reaching consequences for the social and professional scope of the two kinds of practice. (Umschlagtext)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of plates, figures, texts -- Preface -- Part I. Sonum: the continuation of consciousness after death. 1. Dialogues between the living and the dead. 2. The Sora people. 3. The formation of the Sora person. 4. Interpreting and persuading the dead -- Part II. Responding to a new death. 5. Transcription of a dialogue from the inquest on Jamano. 6. Redeeming the dead and protecting the living -- Part III. Operating the calculus of all previous deaths. 7. Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons. 8. Memories and rememberers: states of mind among the dead and the living. 9. Forgetting the dead. 10. Dialogues with the self? Sora bereavement and the presuppositions of contemporary psychotherapy -- Appendix 1. List of sonums recorded in Alinsing -- Notes -- List of references -- Index
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-281
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Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982 entitled Dialogues with the dead: the experience of mortality and its discussion among the Sora of central India.
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