04014nam 2200733Ia 450 991081619180332120200520144314.01-315-41983-11-315-41984-X1-315-41985-81-59874-740-110.4324/9781315419855 (CKB)2550000000060294(EBL)677810(OCoLC)647881040(SSID)ssj0000487541(PQKBManifestationID)11309208(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487541(PQKBWorkID)10442352(PQKB)10371288(MiAaPQ)EBC677810(Au-PeEL)EBL677810(CaPaEBR)ebr10367555(CaONFJC)MIL955870(OCoLC)980270580(EXLCZ)99255000000006029420080904d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSpirits with scalpels the culturalbiology of religious healing in Brazil /Sidney M. Greenfield1st ed.Walnut Creek, CA Left Coast Pressc20081 online resource (241 p.)First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.1-59874-367-8 1-59874-368-6 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Prologue; Map; An Invitation and Introduction; Part I. 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 ConvertsPart 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 ProcessChapter 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"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 toEthnobiologyBrazilHealingBrazilTraditional medicineBrazilSpirit possessionBrazilBrazilReligious life and customsBrazilSocial life and customsEthnobiologyHealingTraditional medicineSpirit possession306.6/0981306.60981Greenfield Sidney M1104792MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816191803321Spirits with scalpels3926560UNINA