Spirits with scalpels :: the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil /

"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move ..." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a rivetin...

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1. Verfasser: Greenfield, Sidney M.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung:"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move ..." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to
Beschreibung:1 online resource (239 pages) : map
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781598747409
1598747401
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9781315419848
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9781315419855
9781315419831
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