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UNISA996213292203316 |
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Titolo |
2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing |
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[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 2011 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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UNINA9910965506003321 |
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Autore |
Greenfield Sidney M |
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Spirits with scalpels : the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil / / Sidney M. Greenfield |
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Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, c2008 |
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1-315-41983-1 |
1-315-41984-X |
1-315-41985-8 |
1-59874-740-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Ethnobiology - Brazil |
Healing - Brazil |
Traditional medicine - Brazil |
Spirit possession - Brazil |
Brazil Religious life and customs |
Brazil Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents; Prologue; Map; An Invitation and Introduction; Part I. |
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Surgeries and Other Healing in Kardecist-Spiritism; Chapter 1. José Carlos Ribeiro: An Introduction to Spiritist Therapy; Chapter 2. Edson Queiroz: Spirit Surgeries in Recife; Chapter 3. Antonio de Oliveira Rios in Palmelo; Chapter 4. Mauricio Magalhães in Campo Grande; Chapter 5. Not All Patients Are Cured: Kardecism's Approach to Death and Dying; Chapter 6. The Disobsession: Another Form of Spiritist Treatment; Chapter 7. Healing and the Competition for Religious Converts |
Part II. Healing by the Spirits in Other Brazilian Popular Religions Chapter 8. Religion and Religious Diversity in Brazilian History; Chapter 9. Pilgrimage and Healing in "Popular" Catholicism; Chapter 10. Healing by the Spirits in the African-Derived Traditions; Chapter 11. Healing in Umbanda; Chapter 12. Evangelicals and Healing by the Holy Ghost; Chapter 13. Healing in the Competitive Religious Marketplace; Part III. Spirits, Healing, and a New Paradigm; Chapter 14. Healing by Spirits and Science; Chapter 15. Science as a Cultural Process |
Chapter 16. Communication, Information Flow, and a New Paradigm Chapter 17. Ritual, Altered States of Consciousness, and Cultural biological Healing; Chapter 18. Cultural biology and the Marketplace of Religion in Brazil; Postscript; Notes; References; Index |
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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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