R. Seligman

Broschiertes Buch

Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves

Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion

Beschreibung

Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with interactions among meaning, embodiment, and subjectivity.

Autor

Rebecca Seligman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, USA.

Produktdetails

• Culture, Mind, and Society
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-48875-9
• 1st ed. 2014
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781349488759
• ISBN-10: 1349488755
• Artikelnr.: 45080145

Rezensionen

"This book offers a way to address some of the unique questions about spirit possession trance religions. Seligman offers a clear and detailed description of her innovative methodology in a special appendix which should be of interest to ethnographers in a variety of fields. I highly recommend this book to anthropologists and social scientists generally." (Patricia Barker Lerch, Nova Religion, Vol. 20 (2), 2016)