Dimitris Xygalatas

Gebundenes Buch

The Burning Saints

Cognition and Culture in the Fire-Walking Rituals of the Anastenaria

Beschreibung

Based on long-term fieldwork, 'The Burning Saints' traces the historical development and sociocultural context of the Greek fire-walking rituals.

Autor

Xygalatas, Dimitris

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781845539764
• ISBN-10: 1845539761
• Artikelnr.: 36584141

Rezensionen

"In conclusion, Xygalatas offers the most well-presented, defended, and empirically backed, overview of "extreme rituals" available. His attention to historical, anthropological, and scientific detail will hopefully become a prototype for future publications and research programmes in the field. Throughout its chapters the book offers valuable new insight to specialists of similar historical, anthropological, cognitive, and physiological topics. The book ultimately is a contribution to many fields but above all else, it is a contribution to interdisciplinary and scientific approaches to complex phenomena."

Justin E. Lane, Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Journal of Cognitive Historiography