Roy Willis

Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village

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Produktbeschreibung

Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of 'spirit' tell us about the nature of human selfhood? To investigate these poorly understood matters, veteran anthropologist, neo-shaman and paranormal healer Roy Willis spent five months in a remote part of northern Zambia exploring human consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781859732830
• ISBN-10: 1859732836
• Artikelnr.: 21651234

Autorenporträt

Roy Willis Emeritus Fellow in Social Anthropology,University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Note on Orthography and Style
Introduction: the Making of This Book
1. Research Assistance
2. Homeland and Familihood
3. Managing Time and Space
4. Making Ethnography
5. Sorcery Attack
6. Dreaming Medicine
7. Dispossession
8. Afterthoughts: Selfhood in the Global Village
Appendix: Follow-up Reports on Ngulu Patients and Doctors
Glossary of Lungu Terms
Bibliography
Archival Sources
Index