Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves by R Seligman
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.“This book offers a way to address some of the unique questions about spirit possession trance religionsSeligman 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)
Rebecca Seligman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781349488759 |
| ISBN 10 | 1349488755 |
| Title | Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves |
| Author | R Seligman |
| Series | Culture Mind And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2014-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 209 |
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