Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield.

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Greenfield, Sidney M

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9781598747409
1598747401
131541984X
9781315419848
1315419858
9781315419855
9781315419831
1315419831

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306.60981

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GN564.B6 G74 2008eb

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2009 B-106
WB 885

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Contents:

José Carlos Ribeiro : an introduction to spiritist therapy -- Edson Queiroz : spirit surgeries in Recife -- Antonio de Oliveira rios in Palmelo -- Mauricio Maglhães in Campo Grande -- Not all patients are cured : Kardecism's approach to death and dying -- The disobsession : another form of spiritist treatment -- Healing and the competition for religious converts -- Religion and religious diversity in the context of Brazilian history -- Pilgrimage and healing in "popular" catholicism -- Healing by the spirits in the African derived traditions -- Umbanda -- Evangelicals and healing by the Holy Ghost -- Healing in the competitive religious marketplace -- Healing by spirits and science -- Science as a cultural process -- Communication, information flow, and a new paradigm -- Ritual, altered states of consciousness and -- Culturalbiological healing -- Culturalbiology and the marketplace of religion in Brazil.

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Summary: "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

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"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

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